SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Philadelphia Negro, Masculinity, Femininity

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

As europeans traveled, they encountered different sorts of people: racial classifications became very elaborate. Categories ignore overlap: remember the variation within each racial category, gender/height, tremendous overlap. Dubois: 1st black to receive a phd at harvard, wrote (cid:862)the philadelphia negro(cid:863, medical schools with separate black institutions, segregation, has(cid:374)"t va(cid:374)ished (cid:894)chi(cid:272)ago (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:895) Immigration (new: poor europeans were viewed as a problem, social working and home economics was created to help them, was not available to black people because of race. Eugenics: good people need to reproduce, campaigns against the inferior. Hispanics: not a race, you might be hispanic, but you look consider yourself as white or black. Race: there are so many hispanic people in our country, hispanic is an ethnic group because it is so big. Culture- everything you know and learned from other people. Race/ethnicity has consequences: whites have 10x as much net worth as whites or hispanics. Mp: race makes a difference because it is treated as important.