SOC 248 Chapter Notes - Chapter SOC 248-reading notes- Race in the Modern World- The Problem of the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Susan Gelman, Imagined Communities

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 248
• Professor: Caglar Cetin, Samee Shirazi, Tiffany Joseph

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Soc 248-reading notes- race in the modern world: the problem of the color line. Introduction: 1990 address to the nation of the world at pan african conference in london w. e. b. In recent decades, questions of racial inequality have to do with civic rights, education, employment, housing and income. In 2013, the nearly 20 million people below the poverty line in the united states made up slightly more than 40 percent of the country"s poor. : racial prejudice not the only motive for discrimination, religion, sexuality, gender. If there were interesting traits of national character, they belonged to ethnic groups, not races. The people of one ethnic group- arabs from morocco to oman, jews in the. Cultural traits of groups have no genetic connection to racial traits: biological traits ie skin color, facial shape, hair color could define racial boundaries if people chose to use them for that purpose.