1. Race, Ethnicity & Inequality

2. Aren’t Race & Ethnicity the same thing?

3. Ethnicity

4. Race
A group of people who share a set of characteristics-typically, but not always, physical ones-and are said to share a common bloodline.
Conley

5. Racial Categories Change Through Time & From Culture to Culture
Italians
Mongoloid
Germans
Caucasoid
Koreans
Peasants
Negroid
Jews
Irish
Bluebloods

6. The problems with continuing
Woods says he’s Cablinasian
People of mixed racial/ethnic heritage
gene flow is open

7. What we view as race may be an evolutionary response to the environment.
Morphological characteristics tend to follow geographic boundaries.
For example, more prominent noses humidify air better.

9. The Idea of Race is Real
“If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.”
W.I. & D.S. Thomas in Essentials of Sociology
and the consequences can be devastating…

10. Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
The Holocaust
Darfur Catastrophe
80,000 people have died in Darfur, 30,000 have been murdered, 50,000 have died from disease and famine”

11. Native Americans 95% of all Native Americans died.
Essentials of Sociology, Henslin
Manifest Destiny (mid 1800s)

12. African Americans Slavery Lynching Segregation Discrimination

13. Minority & Dominant Groups
Minority group
Not based solely on quantity
Dominant group
“Have greater power, privileges and social status”.

14. Merton’s Typology of Prejudice and Discrimination
Unprejudiced nondiscriminator
Unprejudiced discriminator
Prejudice nondiscriminator
Prejudice discriminator

15. Global Patterns of Racial-Ethnic Relations
I. Genocide
II. Ethnic Cleansing

16. III. Population Transfer
Indirect population transfer
Jews in czarist Russia
Direct population transfer
Native Americans
Essentials of Sociology, Henslin

17. IV. Internal Colonialism
Slavery in U.S.
Apartheid in South Africa
V. Segregation
The U.S. South until 1960s
Essentials of Sociology, Henslin

18. VI. Assimilation
Forced assimilation
Permissible assimilation

19. VII. Multiculturalism/Pluralism
“Permits or even encourages racial and ethnic variations”
Essentials of Sociology, Henslin

20. The United States Are we really a melting pot?

21. Or are we a tossed salad?