AMER 1002W Chapter Notes - Chapter All: Social Constructionism, Aversive Racism, Symbolic Interactionism
24 Oct 2016
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Racism climaxes during age of progress in mid 20th century. Overtly racist regimes in us and germany. No modern equivalence to racism in ancient societies - religion offer a beginning. Persistance of radicalized inequality regardless of dominant belief system. Racism still exists despite no jim crow laws. Racism - has to be based on immutable differences. Historicism - social and cultural phenomena arise historically - they are not constant. Symbolic interactionism - meaning is made by social interaction - nothing is given - race is not natural. Social constructionism - social realities determine our ideas and our behavior - we make race-> race makes us. There are legal restrictions against the minority group. Anti-miscegenation laws and obsession with racial purity. It comes out of prevailing modes of thought. It is a means to work out a crisis of identity on part of dominant group. It comes from economic tensions and nationalist identity.
