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Jun 16, 2015 · In sum, the fact that race is a social construct, defined by markers such as skin color, hair texture, eye shape, ancestry, identity performance and even name, does not mean that racial ...
- Childhood and Conversion
- Du Bois’s Idea of Double Consciousness
- Mixed-Race Identities
Children learn the basics for their racial identities while quite young (Banks and Rompf, 1973). In their 2002, The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism , Debra Van Ausdale and Joe Feagin recount the results of spending 11 months in a racially integrated preschool. They found that contrary to earlier sociological assumptions, young children ...
The term double consciousness became very well-known by scholars of race after Du Bois’s used it twice, first in an 1897 Atlantic Monthly article and second on the first and second pages of “Our Spiritual Strivings,” the first chapter of his 1903 book, The Souls of Black Folk. After recounting a conversation with a white person asking his views abo...
If self-identities generally share certain very widespread psychological processes, those processes become more complicated and intense if a person’s racial identity within a taxonomy of races is contested or ambiguous. American mixed black and white self-identity is complex in this way and it also reveals the constructed nature of all racial diffe...
- Naomi Zack
- nzack@uoregon.edu
- 2018
interrelatedness between the social construction of race and racial identity and examine how this construction affects the attitudes and behaviors of social workers using Queer Theory and Narrative Theory as the researcher’s theoretical frame. Chapter 2 provides methodology. Chapter 3 reviews current and historical literature on race and racial
- Elizabeth Castrellon
- 2010
The notion of race is a social construct designed to divide people into groups ranked as superior and inferior. The scientific consensus is that race, in this sense, has no biological basis – we are all one race, the human race. Racial identity, however, is very real. And, in a racialized society like the United States, everyone is assigned a ...
on on the level of individual identities. The social construction of race and racial identities afect many aspects of human life in societies with racial systems, often in prof. und, unin-tended, and unpredictable ways. There are social constructions that are benign or neutral, for exam.
In United States, race became the main form of human identity, and it has had a tragic effect on low-status "racial" and on those people who perceive themselves as of "mixed race." We need to research and understand the consequences of race as the premier source of human identity.
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A MULTIVARIATE ASSESSMENT. Hierarchical multiple regression was used in an attempt to assess the independent contribution of gender, racial identity, education, experience, and media use as factors that might influence an indi-vidual's perception of risk. The media exposure variables were entered in the first step.
