SO 1003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Social Darwinism, Ethnocentrism, Miscegenation
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Race is defined as groups of people that share physical characteristics and are said to share a common bloodline. Racism is the belief that members of separate races that have different and unequal human traits. Race is a social construct that changes over time and across different contexts. Many historical efforts to explain race were biased due to ethnocentrism (the judge(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of other groups (cid:271)y o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) sta(cid:374)dards a(cid:374)d (cid:448)alues) Social darwinism, another 19th century theory, was the notion that some groups or races evolved more than others and were better fit to survive and even rule other races. Eugenics was the idea that they could manipulate race through genetics. Miscegenation is the technical term for a multiracial marriage. Racialization is the formation of a new racial identity in which new ideological boundaries of difference are drawn around a formerly unnoticed group of people. Race is imposed (usually based on physical characteristics), hierarchical, exclusive, and unequal.
