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Ethnicity and Race

Ethnicity and Race. Part 1. Learning Objectives for Ethnicity and Race Unit . 1. Distinguish between race and ethnicity and the concept of what is means to be a member of an ethnic group. 2. Analyze historical and contemporary attempts to classify humans into distinct ‘racial’ categories

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Ethnicity and Race

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  1. Ethnicity and Race Part 1

  2. Learning Objectives for Ethnicity and Race Unit • 1. Distinguish between race and ethnicity and the concept of what is means to be a member of an ethnic group. • 2. Analyze historical and contemporary attempts to classify humans into distinct ‘racial’ categories • 3. Assess the importance of geography in examining & explaining patterns of human biological variation • 4. Differentiate between prejudice and discrimination. • 5. Differentiate between ethnocentrism and bias. • 6. Identify how race is socially constructed by different cultures. • 7. Apply types of ethnic interactions to classify past and contemporary events.

  3. Ethnicity and Race, Part 1 • Outline of Lecture • Human Biological Variation and the Concept of Race • Journal Entry Assignment • Four parts • Spans Part 1 & Part 2 • Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity

  4. Human Biological Diversity & The Race Concept History of the Concept of Race • Particular ___________________________ • Egyptians: ___________________ • Ancient Greece: _______________________ • Arabs: ________________________________

  5. Human Biological Diversity & The Race Concept • Europeans (mid-late 1770s) • Needed to explain new discoveries • Classification system: ______ ___________________________ • ________________of humans • Assumed ____________________

  6. Human Biological Diversity & The Race Concept • Color of one’s skin, skull shape, and other physical traits = ________________ • Phenotype = _________ ___________________ • ________________________ • What does this mean?

  7. Human Biological Diversity & The Race Concept • What is the potential problem with using phenotypic traits to classify humans?

  8. Human Biological Diversity & The Race Concept • Journal Entry Assignment • Part 1, Race Card Project • Think about the word Race. How would you distill your thoughts, experiences or observations about race into six words? • Maintain the six word limit.

  9. Human Biology & the Race Concept: Explaining Skin Color • Natural Selection • Process that is _____________________ • ______________: _____________________ • Summary of statement from Kottak: • Individuals who ______________________ have an advantage over individuals who _____________, & are more likely to _____________________________. • _____________________________determines whether a ______ is beneficial.

  10. Human Biology & the Race Concept: Explaining Skin Color • Variation: ___________________________ • Natural Selection • Important point: • _______________acts on ___________________________, but it is the _________ that they are a part of that actually ______________.

  11. Human Biology & the Race Concept: Explaining Skin Color • _________________________vs. ___________________________ • What do biologists & anthropologists mean by these terms? • How does this relate to skin color? • Skin color = ______________

  12. Human Biology & the Race Concept: Explaining Skin Color • Solar Radiation & Skin Color • Melanin – ___________________________ • _______________________– may prevent ________________ • _____ = SPF 2-3 • _____ = SPF 10-15

  13. Human Biology & the Race Concept: Explaining Skin Color 1940 diagram

  14. Human Biology & the Race Concept: Explaining Skin Color • Solar Radiation & Vitamin D Synthesis • Vitamin D needed _____________________ • ________________________________________

  15. Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity • Ethnic Group –

  16. Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity • Non-physical characteristics more important than biological traits

  17. Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity • Ethnicity: _______________________________ • Affiliation with an ________________________ • Ethnicity is ____________

  18. Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity • Status – • What is your ‘status’? • Ascribed status – • Achieved status – • Status shifting

  19. Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity Journal Entry, Part 2

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