Part 1: Race as a social construction

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Lecture 2

• Part 1 Race as a social construction
• The folk conception of race

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Part 2 history of race and ethnicity

• Phrase 1 European expansion
• Another theory the white working class and
  industrialisation
• Phrase 2 18c -19c Scientific racism
• Phrenology
• Darwin and social evolution

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History continued.

• Phrase 3 Eugenics and the Holocaust
• The Final Solution
• Phrase 4.1 Post-1945
• race as culture
• Phrase 4.2 Ethnicity and race

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Part 3 Sociological Debates

• Position 1 the new cultural racism Barker 1981
• Position 2 nothing new about cultural racism?
  Wade and Goldberg
• Position 3 Race is nature (biology) and culture
  Wade and Duster

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Part 4 sociological debates which term is
better

• Pro-Ethnicity Anthias and Yurval-Davis
• Also in Europe
• Pro-Race British and American traditions
• race is a political category

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Part 5 Post-race and the new genetics research

• The end of race race and science back on the
  agenda
• Out of Africa thesis
• Genetic variation within and between so-called
  races