Race As Social Construction
State: laws enacted to control intimate relations
Culture: way of life, traditions, shared practices
Race: group of people; socially constructed
Ethnicity: group of people who share cultures and practices
What is Race?
Race as a biological construction
“biological race”: view of race that are hereditary. Terms like Black, White, and Asian. Ancestors determine membership in genetically defined racial group
Race as social construction
“race” is a vast group of people loosely bounded by historically contingent, socially significant elements of morphology and/or ancestry. Ongoing, contradictory, self-reinforcing process subject to macro forces of social and political struggle and micro effects of daily decisions
The GROUPING OF PEOPLE …show more content…
Miscegenation first appeared during presidential election of 1864; before miscegenation the term used to refer to 2 diff races marrying was amalgamation
Refers to “mixture of two or more races”
Promotes notion that interracial marriage is unnatural
1878 – marriage of black and white voided in VA; first miscegenation until 1967, that notion stood as taken-for-granted basis of American laws and policy in 1864, various states, not just in South, prohibited interracial marriages miscegenation applied not only to whites and blacks, but also Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, American, Indians, native Hawaiians, and south Asians did not apply to Mexican Americans – Mexicans are considered white when it comes to interracial marriages e.g.: Kirby case
Joe Kirby Case
March 21, 1921: Kirby seeks annulment from wife of 7 yrs, MayallenKirby wants annulment based Arizona’s legal prohibition of marriages between “persons of Caucasian blood, or their descendants” and “negroes, Mongolians, or Indians and their descendants”
Miscegenation laws technically applied to all races alike but they only applied to prohibition of whites marrying other groups
Pressure of “equal application” led other states to pass laws that only applied to …show more content…
By removing any explicit language of race in favor of national origin as basis for exclusin and at saem time introducing homosexuality and adultery EXPLICLTY in determining eligibility for
Culture: way of life, traditions, shared practices
Race: group of people; socially constructed
Ethnicity: group of people who share cultures and practices
What is Race?
Race as a biological construction
“biological race”: view of race that are hereditary. Terms like Black, White, and Asian. Ancestors determine membership in genetically defined racial group
Race as social construction
“race” is a vast group of people loosely bounded by historically contingent, socially significant elements of morphology and/or ancestry. Ongoing, contradictory, self-reinforcing process subject to macro forces of social and political struggle and micro effects of daily decisions
The GROUPING OF PEOPLE …show more content…
Miscegenation first appeared during presidential election of 1864; before miscegenation the term used to refer to 2 diff races marrying was amalgamation
Refers to “mixture of two or more races”
Promotes notion that interracial marriage is unnatural
1878 – marriage of black and white voided in VA; first miscegenation until 1967, that notion stood as taken-for-granted basis of American laws and policy in 1864, various states, not just in South, prohibited interracial marriages miscegenation applied not only to whites and blacks, but also Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, American, Indians, native Hawaiians, and south Asians did not apply to Mexican Americans – Mexicans are considered white when it comes to interracial marriages e.g.: Kirby case
Joe Kirby Case
March 21, 1921: Kirby seeks annulment from wife of 7 yrs, MayallenKirby wants annulment based Arizona’s legal prohibition of marriages between “persons of Caucasian blood, or their descendants” and “negroes, Mongolians, or Indians and their descendants”
Miscegenation laws technically applied to all races alike but they only applied to prohibition of whites marrying other groups
Pressure of “equal application” led other states to pass laws that only applied to …show more content…
By removing any explicit language of race in favor of national origin as basis for exclusin and at saem time introducing homosexuality and adultery EXPLICLTY in determining eligibility for