SYG-2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Negroid, California Proposition 209, Executive Order 9066
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Race: socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society define as important. Societies divided up into categories based on skin color, hair texture, facial features, and body shape. Term began to be used by europeans in late 1500s: caucasian (white), negroid (black), and mongoloid (asian) More genetic diversity within racial categories than between them. Dividing humanity into racial categories = strategy to allow some people to dominate others: social device people use in order to define themselves as better than the people whom they want to control. E(cid:373)erge(cid:374)(cid:272)e of (cid:373)ore (cid:858)(cid:373)ultira(cid:272)ial(cid:859) people = (cid:373)arriages (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) differe(cid:374)t ra(cid:272)es is becoming more and more common (7. 5% of all marriages) Ethnicity: shared cultural heritage, which typically involves common ancestors, language, and religion. Remarkable racial and ethnic diversity = product of immigration. (cid:858)great i(cid:373)(cid:373)igratio(cid:374)(cid:859) post-civil war (1865) until start of wwi (1914)
