SOC 248 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tutsi, Hutu, Socioeconomic Status
6 Oct 2017
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Soc 248- lecture notes- lectures 9,10 race and ethnicity. Role of human migration: human body adapted as people dispersed from africa, ex cold weather affected how europeans adapted, 4 original races, caucasoid, negroid, monogoloid, australoid. Social construction: who/what determines races, people as humans and social actors decides who/what a race is, we create roles of societal power and influence, ex society decided men were superior to women. Govt sanctioned racism: prolonged history of contentious race relations, european colonization, slavery, indigenous conquest, westward expansion, overtly racist laws + politics aimed at colored people, jim crow laws, civil rights movement. Immigration fundamental to us race relations: past: european immigration white racial group, nonwhites excluded from migrating and naturalizing, post 1965: mre immigration allowed from non white countries diverse population. Immigration act of 1965: 2000"s: fewer racist laws, still racial inequalities, resurgence of racism in post-obama and trump election, more racialized anti-immigrant sentiment.
