SOC260 Chapter Notes -Accorhotels
4 Nov 2014
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Racial formation is a sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed. Firstly, it is a process about how human bodies and social structure represented and organized; secondly, it is related with how the way of society being organized and ruled changed. According to racial formation perspective, race is about both social and cultural representation (55-56). Social structurally speaking, state actions and policies govern and treat people differently according to their races (57-58). Race shapes our mind to define who we and others are. People unconsciously categorize people with their races (59). All the pre-existing stereotypes and racial meaning depend on the racialized social structure; and those daily experiences influence our relations to the institutions and organizations as well (59-60).
