SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Immorality, White Supremacy, Half-Breed
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It is now acceptable for an individual (i. e. barack obama) to claim membership to more than one race, like black and white. Phenotypical characteristics race, cultural markers ethnicity. Societies organized by a racial hierarchy with whites at the top of the socioeconomic order only normalizes the exploitation of one group by another. Racial ideology (in the us, white supremacy) socializes individuals to internalize the belief that race-based categories are natural: trained to look at a person"s physical appearance and place them in a racial. Box filled with ready-references for behavior, intellectual ability, etc. 1909 case ruling: a one-half asian and one-half white man is not either of those races, but rather a halfbreed legally cannot be multiracial. Laws against interracial marriage were not declared unconstitutional until loving v. Blacks represent the other against which whiteness is constructed; being considered equal with rights would require loss of their blackness (this just encourages institutional racism through participation)
