AS AM 133 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Welfare Reform, New Idea, Asian Americans
15 Nov 2017
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The sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed. A process of historically situated projects in which human bodies and social structures ae represented and organized. Creates racial categories, which affect social life through racial projects. Refer to big processes and the result of those processes. Simultaneously an interpretation, representation, or explanation of racial dynamics, and an effort to reorganize and redistribute resources along particular racial lines. Social resources (aka stuff you need to survive/ succeed) Race, itself, or its racial markers (e. g. hair, eye, skin color)means nothing, unless they are given social or political meanings. People who come in after the slavery/ conquer of native americans need to fit into this highly racialized society. The new european immigrants have to compete with the inferior classes that were already here: blacks, chinese, and mexicans. Charles davenport called it the racial invasion one of the leaders of the american eugenics movement.
