SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Homo Sapiens, Visible Minority, Smog
24 May 2014
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Un says terms are problematic, and racism for singling groups based on skin colour. Canadian government says visible minorities are non-white or non-caucasian. Allan goodman compares race to smog; we breathe it in and it"s hard to avoid (race is salient, historical concept) can be cleared through racial understanding and examining. Complex and multi-varied, not natural or emerges from personal prejudice. : an ideology that maintains that one race is inherently superior to another. Ideas and/or ideals that assert and/or imply the normality/superiority of one social group over another; together with the institutional power these idea/ideals are put into practice in ways that control/exclude/exploit those defined as culturally different or racially inferior. On average, 85% of human variation occurs within any local population. 94% of human variation can be found on any continent. There is more variation within any racial group than there is between racial groups. Human genetic makeup is most diverse among africans (oldest)
