Race, Ethnicity, Racialisation

Question 1

What is the main reason we have race and ethnicity

Answer 1

Categorize and characterize populations

Question 2

What is race

Answer 2

Indication of a group of people characterized by a close common characteristic ie skin colour

Question 3

What is a good use of using race

Answer 3

• form identity

- forms a sense of belonging and worth

Question 4

What are some significant problems with race?

Answer 4

• Does not take into account biological adaptation to environments
  - Groups have not been isolated enough to see
  the difference

Question 5

What were some way race was classified

Answer 5

• Fingerprints
• Ability to digest milk
• Genetics

Question 6

What is ethnic?

Answer 6

ideology used to identify a cultural region

Question 7

What is an ethnic region (Ethnicity)?

Answer 7

An area with people of the same cultural heritage that voluntrarily choose to live together

Question 8

When was the concept of enthicity adopted?

Answer 8

Adopted into the Oxford English Dictionary in 1972

Question 9

What is the differnece between Race, Ethinicity, and Racialisation?

Answer 9

• Race = Indication of a group of people characterized by a close common attribute ie skin colour
• Ethnicity = Shared or communcal characteristics considered to form a basis of identity
• Racialisation = process where human physical and cultural features are transformed into racial identities/images

Question 10

What is ethnicity?

Answer 10

Shared or communcal characteristics considered to form a basis of identity

Question 11

What are the basic forms of Racialistation?

Answer 11

• Internalized
• Interpersonal
• Instituitional
• Structural

Question 12

What does Internalized Racialisation involve?

Answer 12

Racial beliefs within an individual

Question 13

What does Structural Racialisation involve?

Answer 13

racial classification that spans across institutions and generations

Question 14

What does Istituitional Racialisation involve?

Answer 14

Bias between instituintions

Question 15

What does Interpersonal Racialisation involve?

Answer 15

Bigotry between individuals

Question 16

What is racism?

Answer 16

An ideology where negative social significance is given to categories of race

Often with practical consequences leading to racial discrimination and inequality

Question 17

What is the process followed in Apartheid

Answer 17

1. Scientifically incorrect belief about race
2. Apartheid policies
3. Discriminatory outcomes through the division of space
4. reinforcement of innate differences.

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