JUST 3700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scapegoating, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Asian Americans
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Unearned privilege basically given to you possibly without you realizing you have it. Earned privilege- earned over time (wealth can be both) It is about what you do with your privilege and how you as a group use it. There are people who should be using their privilege such as (politicians, police offi(cid:272)ers). They (cid:862)sig(cid:374)ed up(cid:863) for this pri(cid:448)ilege to protect us, and to make decisions for us. 1800 blumenbach broke the races up into 5 groups (ethiopian, mongolian, american, Migratory patterns (we all started in africa, but as time went on we started to migrate and our skin color changed due to us adapting to the weather) Race as a social construct (social vs. hard sciences) the idea of race is something that changed and continues to develop. No race patterns are exactly the same (america vs. asia) Social significance looking-glass self- (cid:862)(cid:449)e see oursel(cid:448)es (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) ho(cid:449) (cid:449)e thi(cid:374)k others per(cid:272)ei(cid:448)e us(cid:863)
