ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Hypodescent
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Race as subject, not unit, of analysis: race as a subject of analysis, subject as opposed to a unit of analysis. Study race is a sociocultural phenomenon: ethnicity. People who share common identity ethnic group. Ex) situational nature of using one language to speak and sometimes another with a relative. Position of hierarchy using language; english is very in your face. Ii) social race: ethnic groups that are assumed to have a biological basis, cultural categories. Race various cross-culturally; different cultural contexts do culture in different ways; different meanings, different races. Susie guillory phipps birth certificate race black (1/32nd); sued and lost. Cultural not biological: social race as an identity. Conflation (merging things that should"ve been kept separate) of perceptions of biology and culture.
