SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Residential Segregation In The United States, Extermination Camp

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

Document Summary

Race in class- subdividing society- cultural-we make gender. The bottom line: natural differences are often social differences. Anthropologists argue that all humans share common origins. As europeans traveled, they encountered different sorts of people, and created the concept of race. There is no official or scientific definition of race. The ideas of race, racial inferiority, etc. became a justification for colonialism and slavery. Race justified defining people as property, to be sold, bought, and owned. This slave family suggests that race was not simply a biological quality. Without the law, whites used terror to retain dominance. Being freed didn"t lead to all that much change. His book was about the residential segregation the (cid:498)negro quarter(cid:499) in. Bu bois first african american to receive a phd at harvard. As gans (article we read for hw) notes, immigrants were often seen as racially different. New populations of poor european immigrants were viewed as problems.