AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Institutional Racism, English Americans, Acculturation
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Race- category of human being based upon distinctive physical characteristics: skin color, hair type, facial features. Race is constructed: term was coined when us became a country. History of race: immanuel kant (german) First to use the term race in the modern sense of biological differences: johann blumenbach (german) Race hierarchy- classification or stratification of certain groups based on physical characteristics: group who makes the hierarchy is on the top, the more different you are from the top group, the lower government rank. Racialization: dominant white group labels certain groups as subordinate because of physical characteristics. Subordinate- singled out and treated unequally majority with the greatest power. Ideological racism: the elites of the dominant white group constructed other groups as being inferior in order to segregate and oppress, in the usa: New groups: irish, chinese, mexicans were determined where they would fit from whites. Ethnicity: not as visible as race, a group distinguished primarily on the basis of cultural characteristics.
