SOC 153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: One-Drop Rule, Homer Plessy, Negroid

• School: Miami University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 153
• Professor: Harris Othello

Document Summary

Race used to refer to kinship linkages. Later, to physical and biological distinctions (caucasian, mongoloid, negroid. Biological: based on physical type, but physical type varies greatly. F. james davis on the rules that guide our determination of race in america. One drop rule: one drop of black means you are black. One black ancestor rule: one black ancestor means you are black. Hypodescent rule: if you have two different statuses, you take on the lower one (barack obama considered a black president even though he is equally mixed) Separate but equal was decided by the supreme court. Antimiscegenation: blacks and whites cannot get married, go to same places. 1/32 black: law in louisiana was that she is colored (appeared to not be colored) Thomas: if men define situations as real they are real in their consequences . Each society takes what it deems to be important physical differences and creates racial categories from them.