SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Critical Race Theory
3 Nov 2018
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Ethnicity vs. race: ethnicity: social distinctions and relations among individuals and groups based on - cultural characteristics, race: people"s assumed but socially significant physical or genetic characteristics. Brief history of race and ethnicity: emile durkheim. Racialization: social processes and practices that add meaning to different racial categories, social positions of superiority and inferiority are created through processes of racialization. Race - way of categorizing human populations linked to european colonization, domination, and extermination of indigenous populations. Inspired colonial movements - well known for advocated for the use of violence to overcome colonizers: when a white boy on the train says look a negro x2 - i wanted to simply be a man among. Edward said: focused on east west relationships, defines orientalism as western academic study of arabs - west used to misrepresent arab cultures (uniform, brutish, exotic) Canada"s development through immigration: canadian society - never been ethnically homogenous, entrance groups immigrated to canada under the rules of charter groups.
