ANTH 2000W Lecture 3: Rise of Systems Notes
5 Dec 2018
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In the united states, we have a problem with race. Race is culturally constructed and socially constructed. Gives privileges to some peoples and takes them away from other. The idea that in own culture ( american society ) . Ideology of the elites is that minorities have a lack of motivation and initiative. Minorities are the way they because they cannot pull up their bootstraps. We do have a system of inequality. Racism is not transmitted genetically, it is learned. While certain groups of people consistently oppressed) other people, there is no group of people immune to practiving intolerance. Allows us to relate to what it is like to be a person of color - black, latino, native. American, or asian pacific islander american - in a society that privileges being. Even though the concept of race is structural - it can be changed. Tim wise argues that racial discrimination has run amok in the u. s.
