SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Institutional Racism, White Supremacy, Ethnocentrism
6 Jan 2014
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Thursday, november 21: a category of people who share certain common physical traits deemed to be socially significant, there are no clear-cut races , only a range of physical differences. Human populations are a continuum, and the genetic diversity within populations share visible traits is as great as the diversity between them. Process of racialization is the process by which people use their understandings of race to classify individuals. Historically, certain groups were thought to be distinct biological groups. Beginning in the 15th century, as europeans expanded their travel, their increased contact with different regions of the world lead to attempts to categorizes and explain natural and social dynamics: slavery apartheid, segregation and racial discrimination. Racialization also means singling people out for unequal treatment on the basis on real or imagined physical characteristics: part of discrimination. Distinguished by socially selected cultural traits, rather than physical traits.
