RR2 (alt), Racialization-White Privilege (1)

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Anthropology 104 Reading Response 2 | What Is White Privilege, Really? This material is the intellectual property of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. All rights reserved. Name: TA Name: Discussion Section Number: Semester and Year: Getting Started Welcome to your second reading response assignment for Anthropology 104! Please add your information to this template (above), rename and save it in Microsoft Word .docx or .doc format. Make sure the filename includes your name and the name of the assignment (RR1). (Example) RR1 Wendy Liu.docx Submission: This assignment template contains all the instructions and questions you need for this assignment. The reading itself (“What is White Privilege, Really” by Cory Collins), is available on Canvas. https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/fall-2018/what-is-white-privilege-really Background Despite consistent efforts over the last century by scholars to counter the inaccurate belief that races are biologically real, race has remained a powerful framework through which many people see human diversity. Imagined categories of race shape cultural institutions – schools, places of worship, media, political parties, economic practices, etc. – in the U.S. and elsewhere. Anthropologists study the ways racism is embedded in the structures of society. In other words, they look at the norms, patterns, and policies that create and reproduce access to power, resources, and opportunities in ways that systematically disadvantage people of color. Related to racism is a system that equally contributes to racial inequities. That system is white privilege. White privilege is not something that white people always do, create, or enjoy on purpose. Rather, white privilege is a structural feature of U.S. society that emerges from the racialization of groups of people. In this exercise, we’ll consider some of the ways that white privilege and racialization work. Cory Collins writes as part of the Learning for Justice program to give a historical and contemporary view of how white privilege and racialization operate in the United States. For this assignment you will read the article and reflect on it. Reading Response 2 | Cory Collins’s “What is White Privilege, Really” Instructions & Expectations Before you begin this writing assignment, read “Body rituals among the Nacirema” (available as a PDF on Canvas). Read the article and reflect on it by answering the questions below. Each answer should be written using full sentences and should be 100 – 200 words . 1 Anthropology 104 | Reading Response 2

DUE DATE: This assignment needs to be completed by 11:59pm the day BEFORE your Discussion Section in Week 2 . 1. The author writes that “white privilege is both a legacy and a cause of racism.” Explain and give an example that is NOT already presented or discussed in this course/textbook/lecture. 2. What did you find most interesting, important, and/or confusing about this article? 3. How useful do you think this article is as a tool for education about race? What might the author have been trying to get readers to think or feel? 4. How might recent events relate to the topics in this essay? 5. How does this article connect to concepts discussed in class (i.e. in the lectures, discussion section, or textbook)? 6. Have you ever had an experience that made you think about your own “race”? What about that experience brought this aspect to light? How might other experiences have hidden the ways in which racialization might actually be operating? 2 Anthropology 104 | Reading Response 2

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