AF AMER M159P Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ingroups And Outgroups, Class Conflict, Caucasian Race

• School: UCLA
• Department: African American Studies
• Course: AF AMER M159P
• Professor: Park Kyeyoung

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Office hours: tuesday 1-2:30, friday 1-2, haines rm 360. What is race: the construction of categorizing different ethnic groups, a social construct, hierarchy indicating power and superiority, a category of inequality. Inductive to prejudice, social practice and institutionalized: discrimination based on race, public policy, social structure, certain entities have been racialized. Liberal intervention of post-1960s anth(cid:396)opologists: (cid:894)(cid:862)(cid:396)a(cid:272)e does (cid:374)ot e(cid:454)ist. (cid:863)(cid:895) (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)ual. It is category and refers to the way you are raised: history, cultural, language. Anti-native american racism: settler colonization, we: from christian, english, free, to white, portrays native americans as weak and confused inferior people, atio(cid:374)alizi(cid:374)g a(cid:373)e(cid:396)i(cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:862)ma(cid:374)ifest desti(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:894)i. e. (cid:374)ati(cid:448)e ge(cid:374)o(cid:272)ide a(cid:374)d e(cid:373)pi(cid:396)e (cid:271)uildi(cid:374)gs(cid:895, pre-conquest, cultural or kinship distinctions. Ecological racism: no concept of private property, exploitation and destruction of native americans and their societies thru u. s. expropriation and use of their homelands via treaty making. Indians to be contained and controlled via the missions system, reservation system and the.