ISS 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Arab Americans, Intersectionality
23 Sep 2015
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Ethnicity: a concept referring to a shared culture and way of life, can be re ected in language, religion, material culture (such as clothing, food, and cultural products such as music, and art, ex. : ethnic groups of italian americans, mexican americans, arab americans, chinese. Race: although there are innate and biological difference (genetically we are all the same) no race gene responsible for our racial differences, national origins (ex. : puerto rican in crash : socially constructed, a manufactured product, resulting from social con ict and power arrangements in society. Inequality is not natural: inequality is unnatural, it does not just happen, it requires a great deal of energy, labor, and institutional effort to produce and maintain unequal society. Extending social inequality: an unconventional approach to the study of inequality is gaining more impetus, this perspective includes nature and nonhuman animals, the intersectionality of humans, ecosystems, and nonhuman animal species.
