GGRB13H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Racial Profiling, One-Drop Rule, Edward Said
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Ggrb13 lecture 8 march 12, 2012. Think of race as a process, no longer a word. Race and geography have one important trait in common. They are both arbitrary systems of (dis)organization. Race has been the history of an untruth. What does it mean to be white , black , etc. This is an oxymoron, two opposites that come together. It regulates society/world and yet it is a fiction, how it is embedded in society in which some people have power while others do not. What it means to be attached to a particular racial group changes over time and space. As obvious as these thing seem, they are also deceptive. The ways that races are classified are a matter of personal preferences among scientists. What it means to be black changes over time and space. Racial classification is idiosyncratic (peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify) Fingerprints: would group europeans, black africans and east asians.