SOCIOL 3B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eugenics, Negroid, Caucasian Race
25 Feb 2016
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The race concept: the power of an illusion paradox. Whether you endorse or dismiss it you invite criicism (powerfully charged) Race may not be real but the percepion of it is it can create and have very real consequences. Real concept so we must atack the interpretaion and how we use this concept to organize society. On the origins of race exploraion and enlightenment jusifying colonial exploitaion read (p36 . From biological reality to social construct rethinking race as racialization. Process and power by which race-based meanings are atached to issues, aciviies, or groups of people, with the result that race becomes a key factor in how reality is deined, organized, and lived. America the bad? a country overcome with slavery and segregaion, lynchings and the ku klux klan has no choice but to admit that race sill plays a factor.
