SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Atlantic Slave Trade, European Colonialism, Varity
13 Oct 2018
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There was the growth of the atlantic slave trade: european enlightenment, early modern focus on rationalization of natural sciences, european colonialism. There were different customs, languages and appeareances that were new to europeans. Incentives to see new people as subordinate and worhty of european dominance: colonized nations, enslaved populations (especially african populations, european enlightenment, preiority on taxonomic descriptions, hierarchy structured categorizations, priority on naturalistic classification, differentiation resulting from observable physical contexts. There was a formal schema invented for categorization. Strictly defined inheritance (3 of 4 grandparents: racial hyperdescent in us and gendered inheritance of indian status in canada. Influence on lived experiences: canadian census, reifies categories of race, ethnicity and nationality, categories do matter because of legal rights and treatments. Shapes the understanding of social dynamics: ambiguities. Interviewer vs. self identification: there is a dramatic change in native americans and puerto ricans in the us, approx 150% increase in self identified metis in canada since 2006, ethnicity.
