SOCB53H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cultural Survival
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Explain how the concept of racial and ethnic boundaries (anthias and yuval-davis, 1993) differs from commonplace definitions of race and ethnicity. Illustrate with an example: an explanation of commonplace understanding of race and ethnicity. Ethnicity is linked to culture, shared practices, attire, and language. Included national and religious divisions as also being not distinct from each other. These ideas are constructed and changing so that ethnic divisions can look like race and race can look like ethnicity. The categories are fluid, the boundaries are political (political institutions choose how groups are defined: example: At another time they were considered an ethnic group. Sherene razack: gendered racial violence and spatialized justice: the murder of pamela george : concerns: Murderer"s family shrugged off what they sons had done. One mother washed the kids bloody clothes like he did nothing wrong. Too bad for them because they were in college, but now their lives are ruined.
