EBook Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity PDF/ePub/Kindle Writen by Charles A. Gallagher ISBN-636 ISBN-026638. Rethinking the Color Line is a user-friendly text that does not sacrifice intellectual or theoretical rigor. This anthology of current research examines contemporary issues and explores new approaches to the study of race and ethnic relations.
Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity. Charles Andrew Gallagher. Mayfield Publishing Company, 1999 - Minorities - 545 pages. A collection for an undergraduate course, providing a theoretical framework and analytical tools and discussing the meaning of race and ethnicity as a social construction. The readings are. . Indicates New Reading Introduction: Rethinking the Color Line: Understanding How Boundaries Shift Part I: Sorting By Color: Why We Attach Meaning To Race RACE AND ETHNICITY AS SOCIOHISTORIC CONSTRUCTIONS How Our Skins Got Their Color by Marvin Harris Racial Formations by Michael Omi and Howard Winant Theoretical Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations by Joe R. Feagin and Clairece. Rethinking the color line: readings in race and ethnicity by Charles A. Gallagher, unknown edition.
Question No.1: Defining Race: Comparative Perspectives
a) Hypodescent Status:
This term refers to the assignment of individuals belonging to mixed race or ethnic groups to subordinate groups. This ideology usually exists in a society where certain groups are considered to be dominant or superior to the others. According to the view of F. James Davis in 'Defining Race: Comparative perspectives', hypodescent status refers to the social position of the mix breeds of white and black.
The very concept of hypodescent status is based on 'one-drop rule'. The theory presents an idea that whosoever has a single drop of a black man's blood in him is a black man himself. This makes every individual who has one of his parents as 'black' or either is considered to have any trace of African descent, a hypodescent. The term has been coined by anthropologists and refers to hypodescents as members of subordinate groups in the society. It is important to note that one-drop rule strictly refers to having a black ancestry. And, black people are the ones who bear any black African lineage, not the ones from unmixed population from Sub-Saharan Africa (Gallagher 54).
It is important to note that the concept of hypodescents only exists in United States, not in any other part of the world and is used to refer to American blacks only, which makes this term and the one-drop rule, rather unique.. In fact, definitions of who is black vary quite
Rethinking the Color Line
Rethinking The Color Line
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- Author : Charles Andrew Gallagher
- Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
- Release Date : 1999
- Genre: Minorities
- Pages : 545
- ISBN 10 : UOM:39015050063091
Rethinking The Color Line Chapter Summaries
A collection for an undergraduate course, providing a theoretical framework and analytical tools and discussing the meaning of race and ethnicity as a social construction. The readings are designed to require students to negotiate between individual agency and the constraints of social structure, an