V8: Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

What is intersectionality?

Answer 1

Analytical Tool: A way of understanding and analyzing the complexity of the world

• things are shaped by many factors (gender, race, class)
• Examines Power Structure
• Race, class, gender gain meaning from power relations like racism, sexism…

Question 2

What is Race?

Answer 2

Social Darwinism:

• Rational order in the world based on Nature

Race:

• Refers to biological and physical characteristics
• 18th and 19th century in enlightenment to find a rational explanation
• form of identity
• discursive-preformation construction

Question 3

What is Ethnicity?

Answer 3

Anti-Essentialist approach:

• culutural boundary between groups of people
• formed through discourse practices
• sharing values, norms, practices

Question 4

What is Hybridization?

Answer 4

Structural Hybridization:

• Soical or Institutional sites of hybridity (Miami, Signapore or border zones)

Cultural hybridization:

• distinguishes cultural responses
• destabilizes and blurs cultural boundaries

Homi K. Bhabba’s hybridization:

• mixing tradition
• no culture is homogenous