SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Internalized Racism, Indian Register, Spanish Inquisition

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Race: physiology characteristics like skin colour, nose, eyes, lips, hair texture. Ethnicity: cultural characteristics like religion, food, costume, nationality, language. The process of racialization is a social process by which they are imbued by social meanings of superiority or inferiority. White is a race too, but we don"t see it as a race because it is a norm within our society. White is a privilege and privilege is expected. Robert miles argued that these physiological characteristics were both real and imagined: check course outline for his book. Things like colour, nose, eyes, lips, and hair texture are racial signifiers they tell people how they should treat you, speak to you etc. We give all these things a social meaning which then has real, material consequences in peoples" lives. Humani banerjee challenged miles when he came to toronto to teach at uoft. She agreed with the social process of racialization, but disagreed that it was based solely on physiological characteristics.