SOC 281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White Supremacy, Castration, Eugenics
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Race- a social construct used to divide human based on physical attributes; color. But social construction of race rather than natural differences must be seen as the source and continued basis of racial categorization. Racial formation: race stands on its own as an amalgamation of competing social forces. Races constitute an integral part of a social fabric that includes gender and class. Races are constructed relationally against one another and not in isolation. Ideologies, meanings, and expectations assigned to racial groups. Apply racial meaning to racially unclassified action, item or practice. Race is not a function of skin color alone. Racial castration: intersection of race and gender fused together. People with or perceived to have disabilities, bad morals or those who were simply deemed until to reproduce. Motherhood became essential to maintaining white supremacy, the economy, patriarchy, and privilege. Childrearing national duty and destiny to be mothers of the race which was to remain all white.
