SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Matrilineality, Model Minority, Oscar Lewis
7 Jan 2019
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Race is a social construction, not a biological fact (sernau, 2017: 118/2014:110) 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. No biological reality to race, but there is a social signi cance to race. Internal colonialism* (4) - heavily reliant on low labour. Colonial style of labour exploitation - assigned to dangerous types of work. Has to be justi ed to the people doing the oppressing - belief that the the oppressed are less then the oppressors - they believe they"re helping them. Powerful lasting e ects on the lives of native people. A women married to anyone other than an indian was not entitles to status as an. Patriarchal laws that destroyed matrilineally of many native families. History of residential school 1840s last school closing in 1996 - 82 schools in.
