SOCY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Arab Americans, Critical Race Theory, Hutu
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Race: refers to a set of physical characteristics such as hair color, eye color, and skin color that are shared by a group of people. There is no evidence to suggest that there are groups of biologically distinct humans and as such, sociology views race a human creation or social construct that is bound by cultural and historical context. 1930 and 1953 in an attempt to eliminate kurds, tartars, and ukrainians: in 1994 the dominant hutu tribe of rwanda massacred 800,000 minority tutsis in one hundred days. Segregation is the physical and social separation of minority groups from the dominant group: in american, de jure, or legally mandated segregation occurred during the jim. Assimilation refers to the process of socially absorbing minorities into the dominant culture as they conform to social and cultural practices. Many immigrants throughout u. s. history of quickly learned english and adopted to.
