SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Racialization, Essentialism, Visible Minority
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The habit of putting people into racial or ethnic categories. Racialization: the way race is produced and bestowed on people by institutional social actions. Race is something people do to other people, rather than reflecting what/who they are. We create race and racial inequality by performing the idea of racial differences. Racialization and racism are tools used to justify inequality on the basis of supposed racial superiority. Racism is used to justify the exploitation of another group. Members of the dominant group blame the misfortunes of the subordinate group in inferior genes, bad cultural values, or both. Modern genetic research shows human races are more alike than different. Increasingly scientists reject the essentialist view of race. Genetic evidence shows that human groups are significantly more alike than they are like non-human groups. There is a continuum of physical features among humans, but. Race is uncorrelated with intelligence, morality, industry, etc except where links are.
