AAST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Yellow Peril, Immigration Act Of 1924, Racialization
27 Feb 2017
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Many differences between groups but many still get lumped together. Intersectional identity experiences of identity are relational and conditioned by each other. Race a social and historical system used to categorize people. Based on the meaning we ascribe to physical traits. Self-identity influenced by colonialization and context. Race changes over time (irish became white) and changes across places (a black person in the. Us is racially different from a black person in latin america) The meanings we give to race can still be significant. Race is based on meaning that we give to certain physical features. Racialization the process of imparting social and symbolic meaning to perceived phenotypic differences: extension of these meanings to a previously unclassified relationship/social practice/group. Early asian settlers in america: earliest settlers traced to mid-1700"s (sailors from china/philippines came via. Spanish ships: significant japanese presence in us by 1800"s, 1870 9% of california"s population is chinese. Expanded in 1884 to include more categories of chinese, including.
