SOC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Critical Race Theory, Ethnocide, Cornel West
15 Mar 2017
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Chapter 8: race and ethnicity: defining ourselves and others. Contemporary ethnic patters (lo2: demographic research at a macro level show there are more than. 200 different ethnic origins; about 4% identify as aboriginal (61% Bicultural: participating in two distinct cultures simultaneously. People increasingly adopt the norms, values, and practices of dominant cultures. It is assumed that assimilation was a linear process characterized by an upward mobility. Physical characteristics are an obstacle to full assimilation: assimilation and colonization. Colonization: expansion of territory through the acquisition of indigenous populations" lands, as well as exploitations of those people. Associated as involuntary and coercive: les femmes du pays: the aboriginal. Country wives of european traders (children were metis: ethnocide: the eradication of culture, residential schools, pluralism: cultural differences are maintained and celebrated, segregation and population transfer. Segregation: minority groups are separated from dominant group: anti-miscegenation prohibited interracial marriage.
