SOCI 3430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnocentrism, Social Constructionism, Racialization
18 May 2016
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Final essay - use scholarly sources for your research (at least half), course material, documentaries, articles, etc. Racist practices, racist literature and racist actions used in ancient times (e. g. finding signs of racialization in old religious texts) To construct racial categories and place them under those categories. Things that have a set of characteristics, which make them what they are. The idea that european people think that they are the centre of everything else and are superior to ethnic/racial groups. Notions of superiority and inferiority and access to resources based on biological, socially, and racially constructed practices. One particular ethnic group being superior to others (e. g. my cultural/ethnic background is the best)
