CLUSTER 20B Study Guide - Final Guide: George Lipsitz, Racialization, Angela Davis
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The emergence of new scientific positions on race that conflicted with older views. Soon, scientists began to see race as more of social construction separate from science. Race is a social construction based on phenotype; "race was transformed and limited in its conceptualization to biogenetic features of human groups and new scientific definitions of race were introduced" (289) Rules for membership for various native american tribes vary in terms of how much native american. "blood" a person must have to justify them as a true. "to define someone by blood quantum is the very definition of racism" Obama has a strong likelihood of descending from the first person to be legally defined a slave. "obama is not post-black, he"s tied to a seminal moment in the long and sordid history of institutionalized racism in america" Podcast: red and black dna, blood, kinship and. Black white binary cannot accommodate indigenous or native racialization.
