ANTH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Derek Jeter, Miskito People, Human Hair Color
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What is it: a culturally constructed category based on perceived physical differences. Usa: 1) appearance: skin color, hair color and shape, eye shape, ancestry (ex. It is a social classification not a physical one. Us racial system: based on skin color, hair texture, blood, clear-cut categories: white, black, asian. Hypo-descent: children identified under less prestigious racial category of mixed parents, appearance (phenotype) affects this perception, examples. Both men have one white parent, and one black parent. Nicaragua: spanish-speaking mestizos, indigenous miskitos, african caribbean (creole) Colorism: system of negotiated color (=racial) identities, no fixed racial boundaries. Different in different parts of the country. Based on: skin color, hair color and texture, eye color, nose shape, lip shape. Racial stratification is viewed as a continuum. Shades of color different status: loura, branca, morena, mulata, preta, cabo verda, sarara (neither black nor white) The systematic oppression of one or more socially defined races by another socially defined race .
