CRM 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fredrik Barth, Racialization, Phenotype

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3318
• Professor: Baljit Nagra

Document Summary

Course pack reading: cornell and hartmann mapping the terrains". Fredrik barth (1969: was one of the first sociologists to explore how ethnicity was socially constructed, argued that ethnicity involved both self-ascription and the ascription of others. The perception of a shared history of some sort: slavery, marginalization and racialized violence (example) Shared symbols of peoplehood (kinship patterns, geographical concentration, religious affiliation, language etc: music (example) Self consciousness (ethnic groups see themselves as distinct but the source for self consciousness is often labels used by others: you identify yourself as part of that group, that is the most important part. Originally thought as a genetically distinct subpopulation of a species: 1870 four races: white, black, chinese, indian - first nations (example) Categorizing individuals based on phenotypical differences (differences of facial characteristics, skin colour, hair texture, etc. But these differences do not correlate to geneotypical differences (differences in genetic makeup) Humans are genetically very identical (approximately 99 percent)