SOCI 312 Study Guide - Final Guide: Salem Witch Trials, Mariel Boatlift, Post-Fordism
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Strict: ascribed characteristics (racial identification) linked to skill and trait race persists because it helps legitimize inequality. Outcomes due to differential access to wealth, power, status, and mobility9. Concepts: racial formation: ideology determines one"s race. Hypo-descent or one-drop rule: one drop of african blood makes you black & inferior: racialization: extension of racial meaning to previously unclassified relationship, practice or group. The process by which people use understanding of race to classify individuals, groups, places or things. How is understanding of race different in us/brazil: in the us we think of the one drop rule but in brazil that"s not the case. Understandings of race vary by time and place: brazil: they have black and white and many intermediate races (about. 300: england: black is anyone who is not white, us: identified as a certain religion but overtime, identity became racialized. Ny: many races (black, whites, irish, polish)
