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Chapter 9

Chapter 9. Race and Ethnicity. Short Film: “MultiFacial”. Discussion: Race/ethnicity Multi-racial identity Language/superlatives Looking-glass self Dramaturgical analysis Stereotypes. Race is a socially constructed reality. Race No biological or genetic validity

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Chapter 9

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  1. Chapter 9 Race and Ethnicity

  2. Short Film: “MultiFacial” • Discussion: • Race/ethnicity • Multi-racial identity • Language/superlatives • Looking-glass self • Dramaturgical analysis • Stereotypes

  3. Race is a socially constructed reality • Race • No biological or genetic validity • category of people who have been singled out as inferior on the basis of . . . subjectively selected attributes

  4. Ethnicity - sharing of common characteristics • Ethnic group • A collection of people distinguished, by others or by themselves, primarily on the basis of cultural or nationality characteristics (1) unique cultural traits (4) ascribed membership from birth (2) sense of community (5) territoriality (3) feeling of ethnocentrism

  5. Human Racial Classification Religion and Cultural Differences Culture Skin hues, hair texture, eye shape Physiognomy/ Biology Family and Ancestral ties Lineage “White” superiority time

  6. Power Relationships • Majority Group and Minority Group • Dominant group • advantaged • has superior resources and rights • Subordinate group • disadvantaged • subjected to unequal treatment • objects of collective discrimination

  7. Prejudice • negative attitude based on faulty generalizations about members of selected racial, ethnic, or other groups • Stereotypes • overgeneralizations • appearance • behavior • other characteristics • Racism • Beliefs Attitudes  Practices • justification of superior and inferior treatment

  8. Theories of Prejudice • Frustration-aggression hypothesis • aggression towards others when goals are not met • “scapegoat”  substitutes for actual source of the frustration • Social learning • observing/imitating others (parents and/or peers) • Authoritarian personality • excessive conformity • submission to authority • intolerance, insecurity • rigid stereotypical thinking

  9. Which theories of prejudice might apply to this photo?

  10. Unprejudiced nondiscriminator No No Unprejudiced discriminator No Yes Prejudiced nondiscriminator Yes No Prejudiced discriminator Yes Yes Merton’s Typology of Prejudice and Discrimination Prejudiced attitude? Discriminatory behavior?

  11. Functionalist Perspectives: • Assimilation - absorption • Cultural (acculturation) • Structural (integration) • Biological (amalgamation) • Psychological • Ethnic Pluralism - coexistence • Equalitarian (accommodation) • Inequalitarian (segregation) • de jure “by law” • de facto “by custom” Melting pot or salad bowl?

  12. Racism no longer exists! • Sincere fictions • personal beliefs that reflect larger societal mythologies • “How is it possible to have this tremendous level of racial inequality in a country where most people (whites) claim that race is no longer a relevant social factor and that "racists" are a species on the brink of extinction? More significantly, how do whites explain the contradiction between their professed color-blindness and America's color-coded inequality?” • excerpted from • “The Strange Enigma of Racism in Contemporary America” • by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  13. Questions? Comments?

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