Race and Racism as a Historical Product
1. Heroditus, Father of History.
2. Crusades, (Christians/ Islam).
3. Colon, (Aboriginals).
4. American South (Slavery).
5. Nazi Germany, (Anti-Semitism).
6. South Africa (Apartheid).
Racism as Ideology
"The problem, then, with conceiving of racism as ideology is the implication that racism distortedly represents human beings, and the social relations between human beings, specifically in terms of 'race', and this undermines attempts to create a 'race' consciousness among the victims of racism," (7).
What of Racism?
"Racism, qua ideology, was created historically and became interdependent with thew ideology of nationalism" (9).
What does it mean to be signified?
"Racism is denial of humanity...and a means of legitimating inequality...It is therefore a problem for all in social context where it is articulated and sustains exclusionary practices" (11).
Does racial ideology shape the everyday?
Idea of Pre-human
Miles & Brown suggests "our approach utililises social-scientific analysis in a critique of everyday interaction, language production, the uses of everyday language within the social sciences, and of society itself (4).
Race, is there an Origin?
Idea of True humans
1. Race was historically associated with
genus and species.
a. Genus is the classification of
organisms.
b. Species is the class of common
characteristics or qualities.
Great Chain of Being codified a metaphysical and physical world during medieval period.
Etymology of Race