SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gunnar Myrdal, Sixties Scoop, Alejandro Portes
7 Oct 2013
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Culture of poverty and the social reproduction of poverty. Race is a social construction, not a biological fact (sernau, 2014: 110) In the 19th century used to classify and identify groups. Skin pigmentation, hair type, size of brain used to group peoples. See the emergency of a hierarchical relationship (miles and brown, 2006) Racial categories are fluid (example from text: page 110-110) Powerful lasting effects on the lives of native people. A woman married to anyone other than an indian was not entitled to status as an. Patriarchal laws that destroyed matrilineality of many native families. History of residential schools 1840s last school closing in 1996. Ontario (then a colony of upper canada) ended slavery in 1793. History of the plantation economy and racial caste system (there was no room to move up and/or out ) Role of thomas jefferson: knew slavery was immoral but was conflicted on course of action.
