ENGC35H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Heredity, Centrality, Walkover
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Lineage: race commonly used to denote family groups and lineage. Bloodline or heredity/ hierarchy between diff bloodlines. Centrality of sexuality evident in race as lineage. Another meaning of race derives from its association with lineage and roots . Faith/ nation: idea of race as national grouping (nation= racialized category), defined by identifying ppl as a race or as a group with common heritage, bloodline, and religion. English as an anglo-saxon race as well as a distinct national group. Hungarian race in opposition to muslim turks = religious and political b/c each group lives in a different place. Jews= vagabond nation, defined by their lack of affiliation to any one place. Turks desc as race but more oft as a nation. Religious underpinnings of race goes back to crusades. Religion seen to confer certain moral and physical traits (christians thought saracens as unreliable, dirty, and repd them as literally black) Idea of common descent complicated by bodily difference esp blackness.
