1. Chapter 9
Race and Ethnicity “!

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

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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. Beliefs Attitudes  Practices
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

9. 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

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

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

12. 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?

13. 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

14. Questions?
Comments?