PPT-RACE, CLASS, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE (part 2)

LATI 50 Introduction to Latin America ABOUT THE MIDTERM i Coverage Weeks 15 Grade share 33 without optional paper Format closedbook exam no electronic devices Date Thursday February 17 in class. May 2010. Has . race. ever crossed your mind?. What is race?. What does it mean to be biracial?. Is race an illusion?. Is there a social meaning of race?. What is a . master race. and who makes it?. Vincent M. Mugisha. PhD Student/GTA, . Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Essentialism . Vs. Social constructionism. Essentialism. a belief that certain . phenomena e.g. race, gender, sexuality . Mika Karikari, Miami University. ,. @. MikaKarikari, she/her/hers. Paul . Porter, Indiana University School of Medicine @DrPaulPorter he/him/his. Suresh . Mudragada, Macalester College, @sureshmudragada, he/him/his. Racism. ≠ . Ethnocentrism. There is a legitimate place for the concept of race in biology; indeed it is . important for conservation of wildlife. Species. : organisms that breed with each other, but . Dr . Camillia. . Cowling. 1940s recordings of Brazilian slave songs by Stanley . Stein. No tempo do . cativeiro. Aturava. . muito. . desaforo. Levantava. de . manha. . cedo. Com . cara. . limpa. LATI 50. Introduction to Latin America. CLASS STRUCTURE. Upper Class:. Urban (industrialists, bankers). Rural (landowners). Middle Class:. Urban (merchants, lawyers, etc.). Rural (small farmers). Popular/Lower Class:. Ch. 7. I began to see a trend of articles like this one around the recession and shortly after. Ask yourself, why do people play the lotto? What kind of people play the lotto (do rich billionaires play it for example, or working/poor classes? Think critically - if there is a spike in sales of lotto tickets, what does that say about the economy, about society, about people? Desperate? Hopeful? . Ron Eglash, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer . Anthropology has two contradictory strategies . wrt. race: . Oppose myth with more accurate science—positivist battle of facts. Expose myth as social construction—postmodernist battle of discourse. Robert Kurzban, John Tooby, and Leda Cosmides. Presentation by: . Anne-Lise Nilsen and Adam Szymankiewicz. Intro. Background:. Intergroup conflict depends on categorizing the world into US vs. THEM. → Predisposes humans to discriminate in favor of ingroup and against outgroup. The first Kentucky Derby was held on May 17, 1875, and was won by Aristides. Oliver Lewis, a black jockey, was the rider. Admission to the first Derby was only 50 cents.. History. THE RACE. The horses race for 1 ¼ miles which takes about 2 minutes.. April 2. nd. , 2015. “Racial Formation”: The Cultural Interaction of Racism, Space, and Language. Omi, Michael and Howard . Winant. . 1994. . Racial Formation in the United States. . 2. nd. Ed. New York: . THE RACE. The horses race for 1 ¼ miles which takes about 2 minutes.. The Kentucky Derby is sometimes called the “most exciting two minutes in sports”.. THE RACE. All horses that run in the Derby are 3 year old horses. Each colt (young male horse) must carry 126 pounds. Each filly (young female horse) must carry 121 pounds.. 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 . History, Constructs, and Assumptions: The Potential Bias of Race in Medical Care Edwin Lindo, JD Dept. of Family Medicine University of Washington School of Medicine *Statements are my own. Disclosures