SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gentrification, Systemic Bias, Residential Segregation In The United States
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Categories of people who share biologically transmitted traits that are deemed important by a culture. Categorizations of race are blurry and inconsistent: there is no medical or scientific test that can determine race, criteria changing due to policy and history, 1 drop rule (slavery) any black ancestry means black . Slavery encoded by race i: more people that are black means higher amount of. Property for white slave owners: phenotypes can be similar across groups and vary vastly within groups, most lineages are mixed. 1: black/ african american/ negro, american indian, blood quantum, birth certificates, % is dependent on size of tribe i. Larger the tribe, higher percentage of lineage: asian american, continent of origin aggregate = us combined multiple cultures, hispanic/latino speaking countries aggregate, multiracial. Examine our historical, political, and economic policies. Rights were not set in place for people of color until mid-1960s. Racism: the belief that one race is superior or inferior to all others.
