SOC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tokenism, Sickle-Cell Disease, Notre Dame Fighting Irish
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Race: a population of people who are believed to be naturally or biologically distinct from other populations and are said to share a common bloodline. Racism: the belief that members of separate races possess di erent and unequal human traits. Ethnicity: a particular cultural heritage that is used to identify a category of people. Ethnic population: a category or people regarded as socially distinct because they share a way of life, a collective history, and a sense of themselves as people. Minority: a socially identi ed population that su ers disadvantages due to systemic discrimination and has a strong sense of social togetherness based on their shared experiences of past and current discrimination. Black people = race and minority and ethnicity. Race is a social construct that changes over time and across di erent contexts. Race is a social category which depends on a classi cation system through which meanings are given to physical traits.
