SOCI 302 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Canada, Racism, Multiculturalism
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Week 2- european history of race: how do we know that racialization that we have today did not begin with ancient. Egyptians: a lot of racial intermixing, there was no racial prejudice reported, disagreed over cultural matter but not race. In near east, white can represent ill-health or beauty. Ancient romans: culturally and intellectually depended on the greeks. Origins of christianity: when christianity was adopted by rome, it was grafted onto a social religious system that had already developed a racial and ethnic hierarchy. Genocide the deliberate and systematic extermination of a racial, ethnic, national, or cultural group: based on un based convention of 1948, 1. Annihilation to cause the disappearance of a people: creation of conditions to cause dispersal from which recovery is difficult, 3. Week 3- whiteness and politics of race: how race is used and exploited to benefit certain groups.
