SOCI 210 Lecture 5: lecture 5
12 Oct 2018
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September 24, 2018 / origins of ethnic categories. Race, ethnicity, and nationality: non-synonymous (for social scientists, but tightly interwoven meanings, difficult to discuss independently. Plan: origins of race as a categorical scheme, different ways race has been defined and employed, similarities and differences: race and ethnicity, similarities and differences: race and nationality. Administrative categories: canadian census, reifies categories of race, ethnicity, nationality, shapes understanding of social dynamics, categories matter, legal rights/treatment, ambiguities, interviewer- versus self-identification, dramatic change in native americans and puerto rican race in united. States: ~150% increase in self-identified m tis in canada since 2006. Hispanic and latino ethnicity in united states: clarifies difference between colonial histories (spanish versus british, allows investigation of intersecting discriminatory schemas (anti-hispanic and anti-black discrimination) Nationality: relation to ethnicity, nationality, like ethnicity, based on cultural community, focus on group autonomy and self-determination, not necessarily an independent nation-state, often overtly political, formal leadership and governance, nationality in canada, quebecois, first nations, m tis.
