lecture 11-7

• what do race, ethnicity, and racism mean in social interaction?

  • How does it vary from person to person?

    • Public spaces

    • Work

    • Education

    • Sports

    • Health and medicine—studied on white bodies, what diseases look like on a white person

• Labels and meanings of racial identities

• Colorism and racialization

  • Racialization - when you imagine a terrorist, illegal immigrant you imagine a specific race

    • How we apply race to concepts where race isn’t necessary

  • Colorism - shocked to learn that someone is Hispanic because they assumed that they were Italian

    • Racial slurs

• double consciousness - W. E. B. Dubois coined this term

  • “It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at oneself through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused content and pity”

• Dueling consciousness - Ibram X. Kendi coined this team

  • “One ever feels his twoness, an American, a negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled striving; two warning ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”

• Micro-aggression - common, seemingly innocent statements or questions that reflect racial biases and perceptions including but not limited to intelligence and worth.

• Durkheim’s mechanical solidarity - social groups held together by shared language and culture are more durable and stable

  • Explains cohesion of the ethnic groups such as Cuban Americans, Ethiopian Americans

• Racism cannot be positively functional for a community or society because it marginalizes some members

Patterns of majority-minority social interaction

Negative

• genocide—systematic innialation of people based on religion, sexual orientation, etc.

• internal colonialism -

  • Slavery is the paradime for

• Expulsion - the process of forcibly removing a population from a particular area

  • Trail of tears, forced out indigenous people

Segregation - distinct social groups are kept physically and socially separate and unequal. Two types

• Defacto - segregation by fact

• Dejure - segregation by law

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

  • Brown vs. The board of education

  • More separate than ever before

More positive side of spectrum

• Assimilation - members of a minority group come to adopt the culture of the majority group

  • Melting pot, start speaking the language, practice the religion, to fit in

• Amalgamation

  • The blending of groups of people

  • Loving vs. Virginia 1967 — interracial marriage was allowed

  • New people new names

• culture pluralism - distinct ethnic and racial groups coexist on equal terms and have equal social standing