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| Race is aimed at grouping people by identifiable, inheritable, permanent, physical differences. |
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| Race is a thinly veiled attempt at justifying personal gain. |
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| A race is any group that can perpetuation itself and produce half breed children when intermarrying with others groups that can also perpetuate themselves is a race. |
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| A race is a group characterized by a shared national culture, language and geographical location that sometimes affects the group, but does not destroy its ancestral origin. |
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| Race is a category that establishes the potential and value of a group of humans/people by indicating the propensity for social organization or civilization contained in the group or people blood. |
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| A race is a subspecies that designates forms within a species that possess many differences that would potentially create a species designation, but which differences actually fall short of a drawing such as a distinction. |
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| A race is a group with inborn qualities that can either improve or degenerate. |
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| Race is the attempt to define human beings by visible differences or through scientific methods and to distinguish them physically psychologically intellectually socially or culturally. |
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| Race is inherited like tradition as preferred traits and values and is the medium by which, culturally speaking, ethnic remolding can take place. |
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| Race is a meaningless concept that should be eliminated because it is artificial, inaccurate and perpetuates error. |
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| "A race is..." vs "Race is..." |
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Race is .... is more of a general statement about race means.
A race is... is assuming we already know what makes a race and now we are trying to draw a line in between what these different races exactly are. |
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Old View: People only develop a culture because of race.
New View: Culture and race are not connected at all. Locke's View: He wants to put forth a social ethnic kind of race. Culture is what causes race. |
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| Traits of Locke's concept of race |
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With the idea that races are coming from cultures.
People should group themselves together on their own. The groups that they come up with themselves should be their own race. |
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| Locke's Rejections of Evolutionary Theories of Race |
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Rejecting that every culture is heading in the same direction.
Instead different cultures are all on different paths. Therefore they could not necessarily be headed in the same direction that you or we are. |
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Principle of Organic Interpretation: Look at them according to how they see themselves.
Principle of Cultural Relativity: Once you understand that you need to respect those values and how they see themselves and judge them based on their way of life, not your own. |
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| Montagu's Process of Race-Making |
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| Omelet Analogy: You do not see the individual traits anymore more you just see one single race, even if the traits do not match within the race. |
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| Montagu's Denial of Objective Reality of Race |
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Race is artificial we made it up for our own good.
Because there is no basis and facts it only leads to confusion. He wants us to back away from using race because it is not objective. |
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Lilith's Brood is a collection of three works by Octavia Butler.
The supposed production of an individual completely different from either of its parents. |
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She thinks we can unlearn to see race.
Visual Race makes this assumption that we are seeing something that is out there in the world, but really we are making this interpretation. |
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| Alcoff's Perceiving vs. Seeing |
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Perceiving: literally using your sense to take in information.
Seeing: That plus interpretation. We think when we see race we are just perceiving but she thinks that when we see race there is already a process of interpreting going on. |
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The movie about one black brother and one white brother. The black brother gets hurt. But everyone thinks it is the white brother who gets hurt.
She is trying to show what race on identity and recognition model may look like. Everyone sees him as white and he thinks of himself as white so he becomes white. |
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Irene Redfield
Bryan Redfield Junior and TedClare Kendry John Bellew Margery Bellew Felise Freeland Gertrude Martin Zulena Hugh Wentworth |
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Part 1: Irene gets the letter from Clare and talks about Clare's past their meeting in Chicago in the restaurant and then again at Clare's house where she learns about Clare's passing.
Part 2: Irene is back in New York and Clare shows up when her husband goes out of town. Clare goes to a variety of events with the Redfields. Part 3: Irene comes up with the idea of Brian and Clare. Irene runs into John Bellew with Felise. Clare goes to the Freeland party and her husband shows up. She dies |
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Generally: our own self - delusion that race is somethign that we can see..... is what makes passing possible.
Specifically: about how Irene depicts herself. The act of deceiving oneself. |
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| Idea of Racial Instinct in Passing (Locke) |
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| The way that the characters in passing were talking about race its not like they were basing it on their skin tone. They were basing it on a shared value set. |
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