SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Acculturation, Honorary Whites, Asian Americans
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Symbolic ethnicity: ethnicity that is individualistic in nature and without real social cost for the individual. Minority group: group of people who are socially disadvantaged although they may be in the numerical majority. Minority majority group relations: pluralism, in the context of race and ethnicity, refers to the presence and engaged coexistence. Race theory: tri-racial system: tri-racial system (colorism/caste system), bonilla-silva (2004,2010, white, white and assimilated white hispanics (cubans, honorary whites, east asian groups and light-skinned hispanics, collective blacks, blacks, dark-skinned hispanics and southeastern asian groups (laotians, burmese, cambodians) Race theory: the color lines research: the color lines research, one dimension, superiority v inferiority. Race theory: multi-dimensional approach: racial theory formation, omi and winnat (1994:1, racialized experiences, native americans: genocide, blacks: slavery, mexicans and asians: exclusions, such experiences dominate the usa races. Race theory: racial triangulation thesis: asian americans, are (cid:862)tria(cid:374)gulated vis- -vis whites and blacks in a field of rational positio(cid:374)s(cid:863, perpetual foreigner, (cid:862)a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374)s (cid:271)eat out gua(cid:373)(cid:863, model minority.
