ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Negroid, Caucasian Race
14 Jan 2020
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Readings: social hierarchy- the ordering and ranking of individuals within society, also known as social stratification. Race is a fiction that matters as though it were real. Race- a flawed system of classification, with no biological basis, that uses certain physical characteristics to divide the human population into supposedly discrete groups. Ethnicity- a sense of historical, cultural, and sometimes ancestral connection to a group of people who are imagined to be distinct from those outside the group. Racism- individual thoughts and actions, and institutional patterns and policies, that create unequal access to power, privilege, resources, and opportunities based on imagined differences among groups. Colonialism- forced change in which one culture, society, or nation dominates another. Typological thinking- slotting organisms into a common category based on physical or genetic similarities, and designating. [that category] as a species, sub-species, or a race.
