Download Race and Ethnicity - Stratification Sociology - Lecture Slides and more Slides Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! What are race / ethnicity? docsity.com Shrinking White majority, U.S. Racial-ethnic composition: 1980-2040 80 72 64 57 12 12 13 13 11 16 224 6 8 6 1980 2000 2020 2040 Hispanic Asian / P.I. American Indian Black White docsity.com Infant mortality by ethnicity, 2000 3.5 4.6 5.7 4.5 4.6 5.4 8.2 C hi ne se Ja pa ne se Fi lip in o C ub an C tr l/S o A m er ic an M ex ic an Pu er to R ic an Asian Latino docsity.com Race/ethnic inequality 3,253 1,272 491 M en in p ri so n (p er 1 00 ,0 00 ) White Latino Black Incarceration rates docsity.com U.S. Federal data collection • In recent Censuses: – Spanish / Hispanic / Latino is ‘ethnicity’ – White / Black / Indian / Asian are ‘races’ • Starting with Census 2000 – Still separate Hispanic and race questions – But now multiple race check-off option docsity.com Two or more races: 2.4% of total Percent reporting more than one race 2.5 4.8 13.9 54.4 39.9 17.1 32.6 White Black Asian Pacific Islander AmInd/NatAla Some other race Hispanic/Latino Source: 2000 Census. docsity.com Going by color? docsity.com Definitions: race • Common phenotypical traits (not) • Attempts to classify races biologically fail • Greater difference within than between • After lines drawn socially, traits are identified and labeled – E.g., African slaves becoming ‘black’ docsity.com Definition and counting • The politics of identification – Need to quantify grievances and power • So people need to be labeled – Political groups fight for labels – Counting creates, or reinforces, identity • Statistics become tools in conflicts • Conflict creates community and identity docsity.com Definitions: racial-ethnicity • Would drop term ‘race’ but we can’t • Recognizing that ethnicity is ‘racialized’ – Racial ideas imposed on ethnic groups • Racially-identified ethnic groups – Latinos, Whites, Black / African-Americans – Sometimes these are panethnic • European and Indian Latinos? • Africans and African-Americans? docsity.com Affirmative action • Not required by law – Except some government agencies (before) – Data collected by federal contractors, used in suits • Positive effort – E.g., advertise in new places, quantify and counter discrimination – Question ‘objective’ standards • What is the standard, and what does it serve? • ‘Diversity’ as an educational goal – Not necessarily by quota or ‘preference’ docsity.com
