Sunday, November 21, 2010

Week Nine: Skin deep

Looking back, it seems hard to believe that something so insidious as race is one that I've been totally unaware of as a -construct- and not a simple reality. Even at the beginning of the course, I knew that race was real- of course it was.

I can see now that our culture has a strange obsession with it, one that's been used to justify social stratospheres in which the dominant racial archetype is the one on top.

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