SOC 1500 Study Guide - Spring 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Racism, White People, Color Blindness
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There is much more genetic difference within any purported race than across races. His followers think he is more transparent. Helped more people engage in the conversation because it was so well-documented on social media. Racial formation theory: omi and winant theorize racial processes of domination are constantly constructed and reconstructed through racial projects which reference phenotype. Racial structures: bonilla-silva explains the persistence of vast racial inequalities as the product of white supremacist social structures, and the efforts by whites to extend racial privilege. Ethnic boundary making: wimmer subsumes race under a more general theories of ethnic boundary making. Race is structural, not a matter of individual preferences. Neither illusion nor essence (center or true nature) Race is social structural: holding up society, how society is organized. Race matters and is consequential because it is how society is organized. Racial identifications reference powerful and deeply structured social positions. Structures of race reciprocally shape ideas of race.
