ANTH 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Critical Race Theory, Ascribed Status, Blue-Collar Worker
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Social mechanism invented during the 18th century to refer to those populations brought together in colonial america: the english and other european settlers, the conquered indigenous peoples, and those peoples of africa brought in to provide slave labor. Subsumed growing ideology of inequality devised to rationalize european attitudes and treatment of the conquered and enslaved peoples. Greater genetic variation within racial groups than between them. Concept of race modeled after great chain of being (god-given hierarchy) European leaders fabricated positive traits with europeans and negative ones with non- All human beings have capacity to learn any cultural behavior. Racial worldview invented to assign some groups to perpetually low status. Emphasizes the socially constructed nature of race and opposes the continuation of all forms of subordination. Questioning of the normative acceptance of whiteness/racial pride in being white manifesting in acceptable ways vs superiority. Grew out of the legal profession; initially influenced by derrick bell.
