OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Paper 1
- Revise: Racism and prejudice
Absorbing prejudiced ideas about your own group and applying them to yourself.
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GCSE English Literature · key term
The process by which someone takes prejudiced assumptions about their own racial identity into their view of themselves.
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Paper 1
Absorbing prejudiced ideas about your own group and applying them to yourself.
Component 1
The process of taking other people’s racist judgements into one’s own understanding of oneself.
This is evidence of internalised racism: other people’s racist assumptions begin to shape his understanding of himself. It is not his only insecurity — he also considers his age — and it does not make his later violence inevitable. Shakespeare shows Iago exploiting several vulnerabilities while Othello increasingly chooses to trust him.
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