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Stigmatization and the re-articulation of eugenic ideology: A study of coded racism in family planning policy from the 1920s to the 1990s
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Muhammad, Michael |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | ions for ideologies of White racial superiority. However, I treat White racial superiority as a social fact, no longer needing to be directly stated but merely inferred with coded language, stereotypes, and cultural symbols implying the racial inferiority of non-whites. Race meanings are embedded in coded language as stereotypes, cultural symbols, and labels. I propose that the biodeterministic idea of racial inferiority has remained essentially intact within the American psyche, enshrouded within a protective discourse of benign non-racist language evolving in concert with policies promoting racial integration after World War II. I examine this proposition in this dissertation. In some disagreement with Bonilla-Silva, I assert that it is not simply that Whites are defending their position of privilege due to social location (whether or not motivated by race prejudice) but that Whites hold a general consensus of a socio-historically formed group identity that allows them to view themselves as inherently different from Blacks and other minorities. This consensus holds that Whites are in the dominant socioeconomic, political, and cultural position in U.S. society. The assumption of White racial superiority is so deeply entrenched in social relations that it has become a social fact no longer requiring scientific, historical, technological, or cultural explanations. The entrenchment of White racial superiority can be seen in the difficulty some scholars have found in disentangling the effects of political ideology, socioeconomic class, and special interests when studying the extent of White prejudice against minorities (Sniderman and Carmines, 1997; Iceland and Wilkes, 2004; Freeman, 2008; Carmines et al., 2011). |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1033&context=soc_etds |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
