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SOC100BEyes on the Prize (Film)NAACP, Brown v. Education→ banned segregated schools, Emmett Till boy murder→ two whites arrested but found not guilty, Rosa Parks, Montgomery→ Bus Boycott, led byBlack Council, Martin Luther, White Council, KKK, Why is civil rights movements significant to us?Development of the Race [Monstra]Homesickness→ discovered 200,000 years ago- Homo sapiens sapiens share 99% of genetic materialRepresentation- images & beliefs that categorize people in term of real or attributed differences when compared with ideas of the selfChanges over timeDefinition of the self and the other are always related to each other (relational)difference in physical features→ fair skin valued in society→ prisoners of war→ capacityto freedom, justice, piety, wisdom→ environmental differences (the dominant difference)→ influences telling us something of divine word→ phenotypical difference (Anomaly)- seen as problematically different“Monstra” was then seen as a sign of something else.476 AD- beginning of the middle Ages- People wanted to explain difference that agreed with the biblical account of history- Were the monstra part of god’s plan?- Associated monstra with sin; the idea gain support throughout the Middle Ages- dichotomy: white/black, spiritual/carnal, good/evil, Christ/Satan- not just different, but deviant (not normal; inferior)Orient: Middle East & Africa- difference in religion- Islamic seem as false & heretic religion/ideology- thought to be found through aggression- seen as “anti-Europe” - city-states in northern Europe became major economic power in 15th century- salt and pepper used for food preservation- African gold was standard currency; Silk Road trade- emergence of the book as a commodity- saw the people of Russia and east Asia as infidels, barbarians, tyrants- Europeans start to see themselves as superiors & others as inferior. Saw Blacks as opposite of Europeans- Discourse of otherness signified different in hierarchy- Difference of the other came to be just difference in race.- Biological & natural differences thought to be unalterable- Differences can then be recorded and measured- Early 16th Century- the word “race” used to identify the emergence of new nations- Race = Lineage (of common descent)RACE:Race- biological type of human beingAll human beings belong to a race & hence exhibits characteristics of that race→ relatesto certain social and psychological capacities“The other” considered as a biological distinct entityCould “the others” be salvaged? Idea that the Native Americans could be saved but not the Africans.19th Century- discourse of scienceProvision of evidence of the existence of different racesRace is unchangeable, regardless of the current environment/cultureHierarchy of superiority or insuperiority is unalterable (fixated)Idea of fixity of human intelligenceDebunking as part of sociological imaginationRace- a process of signification through which certain physical characteristics are given specific meanings and are used to organize populations into groups which are defined as races. These groups are differentiated on phenotypical and physical features but alsoshowed specific biological and cultural attributesRaces are socially imagined (! !


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