GEN&SEX 50B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Negroid, Oh, Sleeper, Intelligentsia
20 Jun 2018
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Section 3: The Making of Race, Sex and Empire
(Ian F. Haney Lopez)
Biological Race
- One’s race is not determined by a single gene / gene cluster
- Three races: Caucasoid, negroid, mongoloid
Social not scientific origins
Based on European imagination of Middle Ages
- Hyman typologies based on physical guidelines (skin color, hair texture, facial angle, jaw size,
cranial capacity, brain mass, frontal lobe mass, brain surface fissures and convolutions, body lice
- Ozawa v. United States:
Ozawa applied for citizenship as “white” person (because of his pale skin) and was
denied
Racial Illusions
- Congress’s definition of race is based on physical characteristics or biological descent
- Supreme court has a supposedly more modern view on race
Denies physical characteristics or biological descent but uses BLOOD to prove race
Racial Formation
- Race must be viewed as a social construction
Human interaction not natural differentiation is the source
- Racial formation: The process by which racial meanings arise
Rise of racial groups and their constant reference in social thought
- “Racial fabrication”
Humans (not social forces) create race
Race goes along with gender and class relations under the social fabric as a whole
Meaning-systems surrounding race change quickly
Races are created in relation to one another (against one another)
- “Fabrication” suggests possible intentions of deceit
- “Formation” suggests neutral constructions
- Greaser Act (1855)
Targeted Mexicans as a racial group
Key Terms
-Reify/ reification: To make something into an object that can be traded or sold at a market
Reading B: Malthusianism
(Linda Gordon)
- Industrialism created contradiction between sexual prudery and fears of over-population
Bourgeoisie threatened by unrest from the poor but had a strong culture of sexual
repression into its workers
- Bourgeoisie culture made motherhood dominant and linked it to sex
Birth control would be directly defying it
Secular/ religious authorities banned it
- Radical capitalist political theory:
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Document Summary
Section 3: the making of race, sex and empire (ian f. haney lopez) One"s race is not determined by a single gene / gene cluster. Hyman typologies based on physical guidelines (skin color, hair texture, facial angle, jaw size, cranial capacity, brain mass, frontal lobe mass, brain surface fissures and convolutions, body lice. Ozawa applied for citizenship as white person (because of his pale skin) and was denied. Congress"s definition of race is based on physical characteristics or biological descent. Supreme court has a supposedly more modern view on race. Denies physical characteristics or biological descent but uses blood to prove race. Race must be viewed as a social construction. Human interaction not natural differentiation is the source. Racial formation: the process by which racial meanings arise. Rise of racial groups and their constant reference in social thought. Race goes along with gender and class relations under the social fabric as a whole.
