SY210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: 2010 United States Census, General Social Survey, Visible Minority
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The continuing relevance of race and racial inequality in daily life. Only 2. 9 choose 2 or more racial categories: most people have no hesitation letting themselves sit in one racial category. Hispanic is not defined as racial category. Study of us university students - evidence of confused thinking. Questio(cid:374): (cid:862)p(cid:396)o(cid:448)ide a list of races: t(cid:455)pi(cid:272)al (cid:396)espo(cid:374)se, sa(cid:373)e stude(cid:374)ts: (cid:862)like, (cid:455)ou know, asians . U(cid:396)(cid:448)e(cid:455) ite(cid:373): (cid:862)the(cid:396)e a(cid:396)e (cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al (cid:396)a(cid:272)es (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) the spe(cid:272)ies homo sapiens(cid:863) Faculty: 24% agree, undergraduate students: 47% agree. Minority still seem to believe in biological races. Often cited by respondents agreeing: physical appearance, genetic makeup, evolutionary history, disease susceptibility. Skin colour is constantly brought up in racial category. Us data is used because canada as a long history of not collecting racial data. The employment equity act defines visible minorities as "persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-caucasian in race or non-white in colour. "
