{"id":146,"date":"2011-11-28T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2011\/11\/28\/my-life-as-an-annoying-sociologist-or-how-i-learned-to-love-talking-about-race\/"},"modified":"2011-11-28T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T10:30:00","slug":"my-life-as-an-annoying-sociologist-or-how-i-learned-to-love-talking-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2011\/11\/28\/my-life-as-an-annoying-sociologist-or-how-i-learned-to-love-talking-about-race\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life As An Annoying Sociologist or How I learned to Love Talking About Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid my school had “multi-cultural” day- usually in February. It was our annual conversation about MLK and the Civil Rights movement. I remember asking my 5th grade teacher something to the effect of, “if today is ‘multi-cultural’ day, what are all the rest of the days?” I’ve been an “annoying sociologist” my entire life.<\/p>\n

On these “multi-cultural days” we were taught one thing more than anything else, “don’t be racist”. Racism, I was told, was a problem had by ignorant meanies. Racism was an end state. It was something you were; like a title. This, as I’ve discussed before, is the dichotomization of racism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A week or so ago, friend of the site Paula Teander or @sober_sociology<\/a> sent me this TED talk by Jay Smooth about the dichotomization of racism (he doesn’t use those words). I like this video so much that I will certainly be using it in my 101 classes from now on.<\/p>\n