01:070:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sexology, Hypodescent, Menopause
17 Oct 2016
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Social inequalities affect who is most impacted by disasters/policies/allocation of resources. U. s likes to think it"s color blind. Socially constructed we have decided how to define different races as a group. Fuzzy boundaries in a wall-integrated gene pool. Fuzzy social rules about who fits into what category. Most people fall in between the stereotypical races. Black was not always linked to skin color in america black was applied to people on the social bottom (irish people were called black because of their presumed desire to have children and drink) Race, class and gender and hundreds of races in brazil. One of the last countries to outlaw slavery. Portuguese govt did not ban interracial marriage. Interracial marriage was banned in america till 1967. History of us racial categories: constructing whiteness. The rule of hypodescent assigning mixed identity to the socially subordinate group.
