SOCI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jim Crow Laws, Josiah C. Nott, George Gliddon
12 Jun 2018
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Chapter 4 race and social construct
Racism: Negative attitudes of a person or group of people using a socially constructed concepts
of race, racism can manifest itself as feelings or behaviour.
Anti-racist: against or opposed to racism
Reverse discrimination: racism against whites, usually in the form of affirmative actions,
employment equity and diversity policies, reverse racism is considered to be many impossible
because of the existing power structures in society
Race card: term that refers to the use of race to gain advantages
Jim crow racism: anti-black racism that existed in united states during the period of 1877-1960;
Jim crow laws enforced racial segregation and a racialized social order that resulted in the
subjugation, oppression and death of African Americans, John Howard griffin wanted to
experience the Jim crow racism, so he darken his skin with sun lamps and medication and
traveled from New Orleans to Alabama as a black man. He wrote a book based on his experience
People of colour: term intended to be more positive an inclusive of people than the term “non-
whites” or “visible minorities”; refers to people who may share common experience with racisms
Visible minorities: the term used primarily in Canada by statistics Canada to refer to a category
of persons who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour and who do not report being
aboriginal.
-slavery Is one of Canadas best kept secrets
-we have acknowledged that overcoming racism of international importance
racial prejudice: prejudgment or negative attitude based on a set of characteristics association
with the colour of a person’s skin
racial discrimination: behaviour that has a discriminatory effect based on race; there does not
have to be an intention to discrimination
xenophobia: an irrational fear/and or hostility attached to anything perceived as foreign
genocide: the intentional extermination of killing of an identifiable group
ethnic cleansing: the process or policy of eliminating unwanted ethnic racial or religious groups
by deportation, forcible by displacement, mass murder or threats of such acts with the intention
of creating homogenous population
war crimes: serious violations of international law application during armed conflict, such as ill
treatment of prisoners of war, killing of prisoners of war and so on, those arrested of war crime
have been tired in the international criminal court,
race: concept no longer recognized as valid except in terms of its social consequences; for many
years, the concept of race referred to biological divisions between human beings based primarily
on their skin colour, race is an ascribed status
- Today race is seen as a way to classify dominant/subordinate groups
- physician Samuel Morton conducted a systematic analysis of hundreds of human skulls from
all over the world to confirm his hypothesis that there were differences among races t only
in term of their origins but also in terms of their brain size.
- Race scientist, Josiah Nott, George Gliddon and louis Agassiz, continued to prove that blacks
and whites didn’t come from the same species
- Phillipe Rushton in 1980 Canadian psychologist and prof and western university continues in
the vein of earlier race scientists with theories about race and intelligence, he suggested he had
scientific evidence that whites where smarter than blacks and that Asians were the smartest
overall, David Suzuki didn’t agree and acted rather angry at the situations calling it “monstrous”
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Document Summary
Racism: negative attitudes of a person or group of people using a socially constructed concepts of race, racism can manifest itself as feelings or behaviour. Reverse discrimination: racism against whites, usually in the form of affirmative actions, employment equity and diversity policies, reverse racism is considered to be many impossible because of the existing power structures in society. Race card: term that refers to the use of race to gain advantages. Jim crow racism: anti-black racism that existed in united states during the period of 1877-1960; He wrote a book based on his experience. People of colour: term intended to be more positive an inclusive of people than the term non- whites or visible minorities ; refers to people who may share common experience with racisms. Visible minorities: the term used primarily in canada by statistics canada to refer to a category of persons who are non-caucasian in race or non-white in colour and who do not report being aboriginal.
