anthro global racisms final definitions

(racial) orthodoxy

• authorized or generally accepted theory, doctrine, or practice

• “a set of ideas, beliefs, narratives, and practices that constitute official, commonly recognized understandings of race.”

reified

made (something abstract) more concrete or real, solidified

discourse

• a group of statements that provide language to talk about and represent knowledge about a topic

• communication or debate

rhetoric

the art of using language (spoken/written) to effectively persuade or influence others

neoliberal

• favoring policies that promote free-market captialism: competition, ”branding yourself,” centered around demands of market, “corporatization”

• Universities “have refashioned more of their basic functions around the model of the marketplace…including pressures to treat students as consumers”

colorblind racism

a form of racist thinking that argues racism no longer exists by claiming everyone has equal opportunities, claiming not to see/acknowledge color, thus ignoring racial difference and historical/ongoing discrimination

• article frames this in opposition to diversity orthodoxy

ideology

• a set of ideas, beliefs, attitudes, which reflects or shapes understandings or misconceptions of the social and political world

• held by a culture, group, or individual