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Critical Race Theory Exam 1
Lopez
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Political Studies
Not Applicable
09/24/2013

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Constructivism is a reaction against
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naturalism
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How are created ideas misperceived as natural?
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One major reason is that ideas about race have been put into law (Haney Lopez 2006, 9)—ideas which persist in perception after legal reforms.
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Three reasons that Lopez argues that whiteness is just another racial category
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1) Who counts as white/non-white is defined only within a fluid, historical context (Haney Lopez 2006, xxi).
2) In some studies, “white” is just taken for granted (Haney Lopez 2006, 15-16).
3) However, this view that “white” is natural implies that race is a “special issue” for “minorities.” On the contrary, race orders entire societies.
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READING COMPREHENSION CHAPTER 1
What are Haney Lopez’s major questions? How will he answer them? How has he already given an initial response?
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How does law work to routinize naturalization?
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—as opposed to legal actors—works to routinize linkages between the material (institutions), symbolic (ideas), and physical (markers) levels.

works coercively and ideologically to disguise this process of naturalizing race
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How are courts constructing race?
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Courts claim to use common sense and scientific knowledge to ascertain who is white. But they are actually constructing whiteness
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How is whiteness' transparency linked to its naturalization?
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-Transparency is the blindness of whites to their racial identity. It results from and contributes to white privilege.
-Transparency is also supported by and supporting of naturalization—both scientific and commonsensical.
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How do those already considered white have the power to say who will count as white?
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Justices say that the “average man knows perfectly well…” that Bhagat Singh Thind is not white; they define legal whiteness by saying who is not white rather than who is white.
More generally, whites define whiteness as the opposite of whom whites consider not-white.
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How is whiteness defined?
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What is not-not-whiteness
is not only defined by the exclusion of not-white. It contains notions of superiority and socioeconomic privilege. It also contains an Americanized blend of European ethnicities.
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What are the four possible racial futures for America?
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1) White Exceptionalism; where whites are in charge even though they will be the minority,
(2) Black Exceptionalism; where they continue to be the voice of the minority and other minorities integrate,
(3) Multiracialism; where race is no longer used for power and only referred to in terms of cultural differences, and
(4) Latin Americanization; where the United States takes in the culture of Latin America due to the increase of Latin American Immigrants.
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