文档介绍：Race: The Power of An Illusion
Thinking about Race and Ethnicity: What is Tiger Woods?
Why race does not exist…except as a social construct
II. Ethnicity and Race as Folk Concepts
Discussion of Film: Race: The Power of An Illusion Episode 1: The Differences Between Us
Did this film challenge or change the way you think about race?
What is the film saying about the concept of race?
What is the issue of “concordance” about? Why is it important to the concept of race?
Is the student Noah right when he concludes: “Every single one of us is a mongrel?”
Does the film deny that race is real?
What race is this man?
ddPaternal
Grandparents
1 White
1 Native American
2 Black
ddMaternal
Grandparents
2 Chinese
2 Thai
Father
Mother
“Cablinasian”
What assumptions lie behind the designation of Tiger Woods as an “African American”?
The “drop of blood” theory
Southern segregation laws: 1/64 black = black
The obsession to classify people by race in the US continues: the example of Hispanics
These are social, not biological ideas
The proportion of “interracial” couples in the . increased from 3% to 17% of all married couples between 1980 and 1999.
This means that 1 in 6 couples are “interracial” today, accounting for 9,415,000 married couples.
Black/White married couples more than doubled between 1980 and 1999, e to close to 10% of black/black couples.
Data from the 2000 Statistical Abstract suggest that Tiger Woods is not alone...
The US Census Bureau refused to add a “multiracial” category for the 2000 census.
Instead it allowed individuals for the first time to choose more than one race.
“Race” categories have changed over time
New York Times Article on Race and Recent Scientific Findings:
Recent DNA Evidence:
90% of human ic variation exists within “racial groups”-- almost no consistent ic differences exist between members of different groups
Less than 1/100 of 1% of our genes is related to what society calls “race”
“Racial categories recognized b