SOSC 3375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Victor Diamond Mine, Treaty 9, Rastafari
8 Apr 2016
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(i. e. )descriptive accounts of how social meaning is created, attached to human bodies, and enforced through power structures and relations instead wants to examine how and why societal notions of race have oriented around particular visible differences in skin color and other phenotypic characteristics. Perceived visual distinctions are constituted by social practices that are so strong that even blind people, in a conceptual sense, see"" race and organize their lives around visual understandings of racial difference: people had moments of realization that they understand race bc of education by others, blind people had relatives who thought it important to educate them on race small scale interpersonal constitution of race, social construction: big picture macro institutions which construct race, set rules for what race is ie law and economics, social constitution: small scale, local, interpersonal, how individuals make race real in their social interactions.
