- Race and sex is reified via an _iterative_ process— the micro, every day actions that reinforce both. - Because we visually see differences of race and sex, that we attribute to biology, we justify both. - Race is a political category, not a biological category. - Jewish, Irish, and Italian people were once considered non-white and are now considered white. - Race created a political category for organizing society so that different groups of people had different sociopolitical access and legal rights. - Slavery wasn't novel to the New World. Rather, it was the concept of race. - White slaves could work their way to freedom. - Black slaves were considered property, inherently meant to be enslaved. - The myth of white purity justified the "one-drop rule" and anti-miscegenation and anti-interracial marriage laws. - The myth of race depends on the properties... - Innate - Permanent - Inescapable -