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Race and Racism
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Race and Racism
Discourse of Race
What is your thought on the question of the Discourse of race?
What are the words, terms, and observations that tend to inform people about their understanding of race?
Discourse of Race
Race
Is the ability to signify based on skin color but is in actuality the classification of phenotype: Skin color, hair texture, bone structure, etc.
Race
Race has nothing to do with genetics Afro-Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, and so.
James Baldwin
Discourse of ethnicity
What is your thought on hearing the word ethnicity?
discourse of ethnicity
is the classification of social and cultural practices, expressions, and culture,
discourse of ethnicity
Culture is not limited to symbolisms, and meanings but it is how behavior is evaluated by members of t...
Culture is not limited to symbolism, and meanings but it is how behavior is evaluated by members of the group.
Fredrick Barth explains how it is important to understand boundary maintenance between two different social groups, boundaries are not rigid but is semipermeable, and dynamic. To be accepted the new member must adopt the behavior patterns of the group being entered.
When did it begin?
there are 5 historical moments that helped to shape the idea of race.
TIMELINE of Race
Crusades
1095 - 1291
Nazi Germany
1932 - 1945
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TIMELINE of Race
Christopher Columbus
1492 - present
Apartheid South Africa 1960 - 1990.
North American Slavery
1619 - 1865
Process of racialization
Proscription is labeling that comes from outside of the social group: illegal immigrant (Latinos), the n-word (Baldwin's explanation), and so on.
Ascription is when a social group identification organically comes from the social group itself: Chica...
Ascription is when a social group identification organically comes from the social group itself: Chican@, Hindu, Frank, Irish, etc.
understanding race
scientific racism dates back to the age of enlightenment. as european philosophers were rationalizing human understanding beyond religious institutions, developed foundational discourse of race where non-white were considered inferior, a biological throw back when compared to white european civilization.
understanding race
the construction of whiteness and the other
the construction of whiteness and the other
A fundamental fact is that the construction of race is not mutually exclusive of one group from another but is mutually constitutive of building individual and collective forms of racial signification.