SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Great Depression, Scottish Canadians, Industrial Revolution
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If you don"t know what"s your race or ethnicity, it means that you are part of dominant ethnic and racial group. Everybody else will know that they are something rather than that because of dominant identity in canada. In other words not the majority but white, anglo-saxon, english men. When we talked about race we talked about some characteristics. Skin color -historically was not the important one. In fact, most of these characteristics real or imagined. Historically, jew and irish people were imagined as having black and dark skin color. This was a sign that they were inherently sick nation . In fact they depicted as having these characteristics in comics and movies. Cultural characteristics - they were also real and imagined. He argued these racial signifiers symbolize either superiority or inferiority which have direct consequences on your material conditions and your everyday life. Robert mills specifically focused on physiological characteristics and why we were picking these characteristics .
