Sociology 3260A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Irredeemable, Wage Labour, Racialization
10 Apr 2020
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Week 10 (nov. 11) - law, race, & ethnicity. These people were more likely to commit crimes. Demonstrated that minorities (mostly african americans) were more likely to have this deficit or trait. Connect to eugenics: selective mating (basically not allowing people that were. Feeble-minded" to have children via sterilization and institutions) Laws that maintain racial categories and shape interactions among racial groups (like feeblemindedness theory) Delgado & stefancic: interest convergence or material determinism. Material interests produce the concept of race and determine the content of racial categories including their shift over time. American cotton as the world"s greatest commodity. Convict labour was justified through racist reference to the black juvenile"s allegedly irredeemable nature and proclivity for manual labour. Founding fathers of america convinced that native americans were racially inferior and wanted them exterminated. Horsman: there was an economic interest in exploiting slave labour and/or appropriating land, people could be counted on to develop theoretical justifications for doing so.
