SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Blood Type, Asian Americans, Racialization

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Thomas E Macias

Document Summary

Race: physical variations in human bodies that are socially significant. Ethnicity: learned culture and customs of a given community. Includes language, religion, cuisine: can be overlapped. Racial and ethnic groups in the us 2008. Racial groups: white (non-hispanic, african-american, native americans, asian americans. Not really a rapidly growing portion of the population, marriage with other races, many mixed backgrounds. Racial and ethnic groups in the u. s projections (1900-2050) 1900: white (non-hispanic, african americans, all others. 2006: white (non-hispanic, african american, hispanic, asian/other, american indian. 2050 (projection: white (non-hispanic, hispanic, african american, asian/other. Racial formation: sociohistorical process through which meaningful categories are formulated, race is human history mapped on our skin and appearance. Racialization: social meaning attributed to racial differences (tied to material wealth) Colonialism: extraction of natural resources, land, gold, agriculture, silver, etc, re-categorize natives as savages, use them as slaves.