Readings Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formations Exam Questions With 100% Verified Correct Answers.
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What happened to Susie Phipps? - correct answer In 1982 Susie Phipps unsuccessfully sued the Louisiana Bureau of Vital Records to change her racial classification from black to white
What was the 1970 state law about race? - correct answer ...
Readings Michael Omi and Howard
Winant, Racial Formations
What happened to Susie Phipps? - correct answer In 1982 Susie Phipps
unsuccessfully sued the Louisiana Bureau of Vital Records to change her racial classification from black
to white
What was the 1970 state law about race? - correct answer There was a 1970 state
law which declared anyone with at least 1/32 "Negro blood" to be black
Why did people think that racial classification was necessary? - correct answer
Believed that some type of racial classification was necessary to comply with federal record-keeping
requirements and to facilitate programs for the prevention of genetic diseases
How do the social sciences regard race? - correct answer -Social sciences have come
to reject biologicistic notions of race in factor of an approach which regards race as a social concept
-Racial categories and the meaning of race are given concrete expression by the specific social relations
and historical context in which they are embedded
How do we navigate race relations? - correct answer Our compass for navigating
race relations depends on preconceived notions of what each specific racial group looks like
What is the "racial etiquette"? - correct answer -In U.S. Society a kind of "racial
etiquette" exists
-A set of interpretive codes and racial meaning which operate in the interactions of daily life
-Rules shaped by our perception of race in a comprehensively racial society determine the "presentation
of self", distinctions of status, and appropriate modes of conduct
How do racial beliefs form/operate? - correct answer -Racial subjection is
ideological
-Racial beliefs operate as an amateur biology or a way of explaining the variations in human nature
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