SOC 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hypodescent, Exogamy, Endogamy
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In the 18th century, race was created as a category in the census. Highly influenced by charles darwin and the idea of the strong survive. Race: group of people who share common descend based on innate physical appearance. Ethnicity: people with a common culture identification based on language, traditional practices, and religion. Hypodescent: identified anyone with any black ancestry as black. Child who has two parents of different races will have to identify as the minority parent. Racial ethnicity: an ethnic group perceived to share physical characteristics. Endogamy: marriage and reproduction within the same group. Exogamy: marriage and reproduction not in the same group. Minority group: a racial or ethnic group that occupies a subordinate status in society. African americans moved from rural south to the urban centers in the north to look for work. This caused white people to leave to the suburbs (white. "honor of white girls" was common pretext of lynching mobs.
