PHI 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Diversity Training, Hate Speech, Stereotype
26 Apr 2019
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Race has been relevant to how we"ve lived for 400 years. Race-talk is embedded in our language: taylor, pp. The phenomena of separating people conceptually--- in language--- into something called race. Moral error of discrimination (actual or imagined) A social construct that artificially divides people into distinct groups based on a loose classifications of physical characteristics. It means different things in different parts of the world. We identify with it because it is so visible. People of the same race/ethnicity may share similar socialization processes. Consequently, it affects one"s own thoughts/ feelings, behaviors. Potentially, in both positive and negative ways. Later still: end of 15th racialized labor systems . Historically (prior to 17th c. ), race meant family or national group. By the mid-1800"s, in the west, with the development of biology, and the desire to classify. Mid-1800"s: so called racial theorists in the u. s. posisted racial essences : Race became the cause of characteristics, inherited through family descent,
