Define Race By Law
WHITE BY LAW
What is Race? When some people use the "race" they attach a biological meaning, still others use "race" as a socially constructed concept. It is clear that even though race does not have a biological meaning, it does have a social meaning which has been legally constructed. I define a "race" as a vast group of people loosely bound together by historically liable, socially significant elements of their ancestry. Races are social products. It follows that legal institutions and practices, as essential components of our highly legalized society, have had a hand in the construction of race. Throughout the history, race has been constructed by many branches of society that empowered the ideology of difference. Specifically, in law, …show more content…
To critically examine and look carefully upon those structures, one have to put in mind how those forces were manufactured by the Supreme Court and government institutions; which negatively obstructed the political and social structure of the university. Those ideas were being produced when the Supreme Court judged in the Plessy v Ferguson court case against the man of color who rejected the segregation on the bus. The court constructively judged that the social segregation was not created by the constitution but it was created by the people of color, “we consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff’s argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it”(Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896). Many believe that the court constructed the idea of micro-invalidation by dismissing and negating the liked experiences of people
What is Race? When some people use the "race" they attach a biological meaning, still others use "race" as a socially constructed concept. It is clear that even though race does not have a biological meaning, it does have a social meaning which has been legally constructed. I define a "race" as a vast group of people loosely bound together by historically liable, socially significant elements of their ancestry. Races are social products. It follows that legal institutions and practices, as essential components of our highly legalized society, have had a hand in the construction of race. Throughout the history, race has been constructed by many branches of society that empowered the ideology of difference. Specifically, in law, …show more content…
To critically examine and look carefully upon those structures, one have to put in mind how those forces were manufactured by the Supreme Court and government institutions; which negatively obstructed the political and social structure of the university. Those ideas were being produced when the Supreme Court judged in the Plessy v Ferguson court case against the man of color who rejected the segregation on the bus. The court constructively judged that the social segregation was not created by the constitution but it was created by the people of color, “we consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff’s argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it”(Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896). Many believe that the court constructed the idea of micro-invalidation by dismissing and negating the liked experiences of people