CRM 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Institutional Racism, Racialization, Canadian Identity
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Scientific research has shown genetic differences among human groups that we view as races are inconsistent and insignificant. Society assumes racial categories and takes them seriously but they do so for social and not biological reasons. Race is a product of human perception and classification. Race: groups of people who may have differences and similarities in certain characteristics (often physical) deemed by society to be socially significant. Racialization: is the process by which groups come to be classified as races. It is the process by which certain bodily features or assumed biological characteristics are used systematically to mark certain persons for differential status or treatment. Ethnicization: is the making of an ethnic group. It is the process by which groups of persons come to see itself as a distinct group linked by bonds of kinship or their equivalents by a shared history and by cultural symbols.