ES 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Afro-Caribbean, Laziness, An American Dilemma
27 Jul 2018
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Racialization: a verb; the act of constructing racial categories and the value we ascribe to them in different historical moments, how we define people, the racial category black evolved with the consolidation of slavery. Africans who identified with specific ethnic groups, such as ibo, yoruba, fon, were constructed by. In the us, the principle of hypodescent has turned any racial intermixture into non- whiteness. If one has a black ancestor, among many white ancestors, one is deemed black, for instance. (pg 11) People in the same family can be identify racially as black, white, mestizo, or a series of other intermediate racial categories non-existent in the us. In 1980"s, british politics the term black" is used to refer to all non-whites including. Irish on the west coast engaged in vicious anti-chinese race-baiting and enabled the chinese exclusion act passed in 1882 (pg 14). Race: race is a social construction, not a biological fact.
