SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Sixties Scoop, Matrilineality, Cuban Americans
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Race is a social construction, not a biological fact (sernau, 2017, 110: a social construction happening at a specific time in a specific location. In the 19th century used to classify and identify groups. Skin pigmentation, hair type, size of brain used to group peoples. See the emergency of a hierarchical relationship (miles and brown, 2006) Racial categories are fluid (example from text: 2017: 111: racial groups based off of physical characteristics. Residential schools were built to have children removed from their families and have their traditions taken away. Powerful lasting effects on the lives of native people. A woman married to anyone other than an indian was not entitled to status as an indian, nor were her children . Patriarchal laws that destroyed matrilineally of many native families. History of residential schools 1840s last school closing in 1996. Indigenous people are among the most disadvantaged on earth. Attempts to assimilate and attempts to annihilate.
