SOCL 2001 Chapter : Ch 9 Race
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11:46 am: race as we know it has no deterministic biological basis: all the same, race is so powerful that it can have life or death consequences. Ex: immigrants coming to the united states in the past had distinct race , Social darwinism - another nineteenth century theory, was the notion that some groups or races evolved more than others and were better fit to survive and even rule other races. 9/11 has made muslims more racialized, they have become more assoc. with terrorism: race vs. Latinos- 17. 4% of the us population: african americans- 13. 2% of americas population, middle eastern- half of a percent, minority- majority group relations. Scholars have defined broad forms that minority and majority group relations can take: assimilation. Segregation: the legal or social practice of separating people on the basis of their race or ethnicity. Segregation was official policy in the us particularly in the south, until the 1960s.
