SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Symbolic Ethnicity
9 Sep 2016
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Social construction of ethnicity and race: us society. Race - group of people that have been singled out on the basis of real or alleged physical characteristics - (curry, 209) United states - default race is white: dominate majority of life - tv, commercials, books, assume that it is a white person, white ethnicities - assimilated european cultures/heritages. Irish, italian, german: symbolic ethnicity (whites) - has no day-to-day reality for how life is structured. Can have this ethnicity, it won"t limit you. Some non-white races are oppositional to white: oppositional race - race is resulted/nurtured from social exclusion and rejection (curry, 235 [waters article]) Includes the race of black, american indian/native american. Are asians oppositional: waters questions this, apartheid in south africa (1948-1994) Legal system of segregation and oppression put in place by white supremacist national government. Government divided people in south africa (4 groups: whites - only ones who could vote, indian/asian.
