- Race and sex is reified via an iterative process— the micro, every day actions that reinforce both.
- Because we visually see differences of race and sex, that we attribute to biology, we justify both.
- Race is a political category, not a biological category.
- Jewish, Irish, and Italian people were once considered non-white and are now considered white.
- Race created a political category for organizing society so that different groups of people had different sociopolitical access and legal rights.
- Slavery wasn’t novel to the New World. Rather, it was the concept of race.
- White slaves could work their way to freedom.
- Black slaves were considered property, inherently meant to be enslaved.
- The myth of white purity justified the “one-drop rule” and anti-miscegenation and anti-interracial marriage laws.
- The myth of race depends on the properties…
- Innate
- Permanent
- Inescapable