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Define Whiteness: According to Summary of whiteness theory by Audrey Thompson, Whiteness is not treated as a biological category but as a social construction. Whiteness is thought of as "natural". Who counts as white depends on what is at stake. A dictionary site says whiteness as the quality or state of being white or pale.

Define Marginalized: A dictionary says marginalized is to be placed in position of marginal importance to hold power or influence. 

Define Heterotypical: Of or pertaining to the first or reductional division in meiosis  

My thoughts about these definitions are similar to the definitions and different in others. When I think of whitenesss I think two different things first I think of white people always trying to be dominate and so they have power because of their whiteness and second I think of just white paper as having whiteness. when i think marginalized i didnt really have a definition in mind because I didnt know that word at all. Lastly Heterotypical I think of Males and Females doing what is socially excepted for the that particular gender. 

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I picked this quote because it is true today how the effects of the past are still with us and as a society we try to move forward from those mistakes and learn from them so they aren't repeated. I think as a society we are doing this well.	"The future must no longer be determined by the past. I do not deny that the effects of the past are still with us. But I refuse to strengthen them by repeating them."
This strikes me as true also because some people find it not appropriate to talk about females in that way, but females may say something different.	"But what strikes me is the infinite richness of their individual constitutions: you cant talk about a female sexuality, uniform, homogeneous  classifiable into codes- any more than you can talk about one unconscious resembling another."
This I found interesting because if they are from Africa or black should have nothing to do with the way they are perceived by the world	"As soon as they are able to speak at the same time they are taught their name, they can be taught that their territory is black: because you are africa, you are black."
But why does it scare them??	"Smug-faced readers, managing editors, and big bosses dont like the true texts of women-female sexed texts. That kind scares them"