ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: One-Drop Rule, Racialization, Ferdinand De Saussure
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Unravel/deconstruct the social construction of invented (but real) categories like race, national identity, or gender. These categories do exist, but we undermine the certainty that people have about those concepts. The concepts are vague and indistinct; some are not given to us by nature but are created by society/human nature. Deconstruct: to take about something like race that was created by society. We discover their genealogy: what in history makes them possible. This work must precede any advice anthros can give on what if correct. Race does not derive from nature, it is constructed, and this is racialization. The wa(cid:455) the word (cid:862)ra(cid:272)e(cid:863) has (cid:271)ee(cid:374) used has (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ged a(cid:374)d is (cid:272)ha(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g. there are (cid:374)ew ra(cid:272)ial terms (brown, ex) that are evolving over time. Racialization always goes together with conflict and power relations. The black race and white race were invented, in the specific condition of slavery in the.
