SOCL 4401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mass Incarceration, Nuclear Family, Cuban Americans
Document Summary
Family and family interactions are the first site of racial self-awareness. Race: a group of people believed to share common descent, based on perceive innate physical similarities. Ethnicity: a group of people with a common cultural identification based on a common language, religion, ancestral origin, or traditional practices. Race and ethnicity are different social categories that often overlap. Reflects perceived cultural differences: u. s structured around 5 racial-ethnic groups. % children under 18 living with two parents, one parent, neither parent- for all children living in households in 2009. Most single parent, least 2 parent- african american: not due to differential morals, values, or proclivities towards marriage, parenting, etc. For every 3 unmarried women, there is 1 man w/ earnings above the poverty line. Mass incarceration of black men and effects of drugs & violence: urban poverty/ residential segregation. Creation of residential segregation through formal and informal practices (e. g. , redlining and preferential home mortgages for white families).
