How Does Race Is Considered A Pre-Eminently Sociohistorical Concept?
Race is a “pre-eminently sociohistorical concepts”, thus can one say race has not always existed and it is is a new phenomenon, race is thus social constructed. Omi and Winant discuss thus idea in their article “racial formation”. This essay will thus discuses race as a “pre-eminently sociohistorical concept”, and how it is socially constructed. Thus will this essay make use of variety of articles and studies, which helps one, understand race as a social reality instead of a scientific reality.
Omi and Winant describes race as a “pre-eminently sociohistorical concept”, this means that race is a new phenomenon. Race has not always existed it begun during the Early Modern Period. It was brought on by the circumnavigation of the globe, which …show more content…
Sandra was thus classified as a white person although she did not present as a white person. The reason for Sandra’s appearance was due to the “black blood” in her, most white Afrikaners did have “black blood”. The idea of race as a scientific reality was thus completely inaccurate, and race was seen as a social reality, this is proved at the appearance of Sandra Lang, scientifically she was a person of colour, but socially she was seen as a white person and she was thus classified as a white person. Bachler (2008, 128) explains this penname by stating race is not biological, ‘Beneath the seemingly self-evident biology of race, there are complex social, political and cultural forces that sustain that appearance. Bachler is thus saying race is not scientific rather race has been socially …show more content…
The film skin shows how the apartheid regime gave privileges to certain people due to their race. Sandra Lang’s parents was white and yet she looked like a person of colour, so many of her privileges were in jeered, like her education. Her father thought so hard for her classification, due to him not wanting her to be classified as a person of colour, because that classification meant that she would have been disadvantaged on many different
Omi and Winant describes race as a “pre-eminently sociohistorical concept”, this means that race is a new phenomenon. Race has not always existed it begun during the Early Modern Period. It was brought on by the circumnavigation of the globe, which …show more content…
Sandra was thus classified as a white person although she did not present as a white person. The reason for Sandra’s appearance was due to the “black blood” in her, most white Afrikaners did have “black blood”. The idea of race as a scientific reality was thus completely inaccurate, and race was seen as a social reality, this is proved at the appearance of Sandra Lang, scientifically she was a person of colour, but socially she was seen as a white person and she was thus classified as a white person. Bachler (2008, 128) explains this penname by stating race is not biological, ‘Beneath the seemingly self-evident biology of race, there are complex social, political and cultural forces that sustain that appearance. Bachler is thus saying race is not scientific rather race has been socially …show more content…
The film skin shows how the apartheid regime gave privileges to certain people due to their race. Sandra Lang’s parents was white and yet she looked like a person of colour, so many of her privileges were in jeered, like her education. Her father thought so hard for her classification, due to him not wanting her to be classified as a person of colour, because that classification meant that she would have been disadvantaged on many different