Lecture 9 Racialization

Question 1

what is race

Answer 1

A socially defined category of people whose perceived physical markers are deemed significant

Question 2

what is racialization

Answer 2

Social process and practices whereby “social relations among people are structured by the signification of human biological characteristics in such a way as to define and construct differentiated social collectivites

Question 3

what is ethnicity

Answer 3

Associated with people’s cultural characteristics, mostly symbolic, such as their customs, beliefs ideas, mores, language, history, folklore, and other symbols that hold the group together and assist others to recognize them as separate

Question 4

what does the term blue blood mean

Answer 4

Aristrocats saw blue veins as a characteristic of power, and racialized people based on “blue blood”

Question 5

what is MENA

Answer 5

ethnographic study “the limits of whiteness”

Question 6

how do racial categories shift over

Answer 6

In the early twentieth century, people of irish, italian, and jewish ancestry were considered non-white. By the 1950s it was no longer considered like that

Question 7

where does race originate

Answer 7

scientific racism where ideas about biological bases of difference were popularized

Question 8

what are some examples of early scientific racism

Answer 8

studies suggesting that brain size and skull size were determined by humans’ positions on the social hierarchy

Question 9

what did the UNESCO do to challenge scientific racism

Answer 9

sponsoring a series of conferences contesting the truth of race

Question 10

what was the output of UNESCO conferences

Answer 10

statements about what race is and is not, claiming a link between humans’ biology and their culture is non scientific

Question 11

what was the human genome project

Answer 11

an attempt to trace the human genome beginning in 1987

Question 12

what were the findings from the human genome project

Answer 12

that humans are far more similar than they are distinct; humans share as much as 99.9% of genetic material

Question 13

what is the purpose of the Thomas Theorem

Answer 13

can help us understand the persistence of race as a determinant of social status and life chances

Question 14

what is double consciousness

Answer 14

a split or separation of the self from being both “black” and “american”

Question 15

what were three ways the Canadian government enacted polices toward indigenous peoples

Answer 15

eliminations, explosion, and assimilation

Question 16

how did eliminations affect indigenous people

Answer 16

genocide and eugenics

Question 17

how did expulsion affect indigenous people

Answer 17

removal of population from their land

Question 18

how did assimilation affect indigenous people

Answer 18

residential schools

Question 19

what was the implicit white Canada policy

Answer 19

immigration policy to keep Canada white, as desired by government

Question 20

why were immigrants were recruited to Canada

Answer 20

as sources of labor and to increase the Canadian population

Question 21

how did Canadian Pacific Railway affect immigration

Answer 21

it vastly increased Chinese male immigrants coming to Canada

Question 22

how did the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway affect immigration

Answer 22

racist immigration policies came into effect including the Chinese head tax

Question 23

what is vertical mosaic

Answer 23

Racism and ethnic stereotypes regulated who was deemed suitable immigrant and influence in once they arrive in Canada

Question 24

what are three forms of institutional racism

Answer 24

Racist assumptions about the strengths, weaknesses and incapacitated of arbitrarily defined population groups inform social policies, programs, or institutional practices

Ideas about so-called racial inferiority inform the initial development of specific policies but no longer sustain those policies

Policies that appear ethnically or racially neutral intentionally or unintentionally disadvantage racialized minorities

Question 25

what is democratic racism

Answer 25

a new form of racism expressed via discourses of domination

Question 26

what is a symbolic interactionism theorists perspective on race

Answer 26

It examines how interactions with others shape our sense of self and provide the basis for learning symbols and their meanings, including the meaning implicit and explicit of language, images, and abstract symbolism

Question 27

what is a feminist theorist perspective on race

Answer 27

their work is focused on raising awareness around inequalities and advocating for equal rights for women and other marginalized groups, including those of racialized and ethnic minority groups

Question 28

what is a conflict theorist perspective on race

Answer 28

It highlights how dominant groups benefit more than racialized groups from differentiation, as differentiation often provides advantages to dominant groups
Majority groups seek to dominate minorities because this can provide advantages