SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Scientific Racism, Ascribed Status, Ethnocentrism
20 Apr 2015
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Objectives: explain how race is a social construct, define types of racism, explain how racist behaviour has changed over time, discuss explanations for racial crimes. Lucius outlaw toward a critical theory of race . It is unclear whether the term derives from an arabic, latin or a german source: we need to examine the career of the term race , first (recorded) use in english by william dunbar in 1508 in a poem. It initially was used to denote a class of persons or things. Conclusion: with greater knowledge about human biology, the concept of race became increasingly suspect. Biologists recognized that each race did not necessarily have a particular hand. the spread of capitalism led to significant mixing of the races. As well, each person may receive different traits from their parents. We are not simply replicas of our parents. American blood in you, then you"re entirely characterized as black.
