Racial & Ethnic Relations - Exam 1 Notes

SOC 429

Race - racial group

physical characteristics that are used to no distinguish people

• cannot change

• no longer exists = it a social construct

Ethnic group

• common culture

• national origins

• changable

One-Drop Rule

the notion that a certain amount of so-called black blood legally defined someone as black

• formally called: hypodescent

• you could be considered a given race in one state and not in another as late as 1963

• some people were not considered citizens and lost all rights

golden age of racism

the late 18th to early 20th century was a period of dramtic change in the racial and social order of the U.S.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Racial backlash occurs when there is a movement

Jim Crow (from reconstruction to civil war)

• segregation

• meaning of race deeply tied to systems of racial inequality

• race emerges for very specific societal reasons

• race is a social construct

• WE BELIEVE IN THE IDEA OF RACE BECUASE OF RACISM

The myth of biological race

people “see” race visually becuase of physical characteristics, which make race “visible” to others

Geneotype

full set of genes found in a given organism, including the human body

• race based-diseases

• ONE RACE = THE HUMAN RACE

xenophobia

fear of foreigners

Ethnocentrism

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