Christy Chavez October 3rd, 2016
How do you define race?
There are many different arguments about race;
I question myself what is race? Moreover, where did it all begin?
The relationship between race as a sociological
concept and race as a scientific concept can go hand in hand. Sociological
concept is an understanding of questions and ideas asked in sociology.
Sociology itself can vary in many different aspects because it can be the study
of people, places, or the development of an idea. The scientific concept is an
understanding of a study or an understanding of an idea using science. Between
both concepts using race, the relationship is the study of science using DNA, skin
color, hair shape, eye color and even athletic ability. According to Race and Race theory, it states “At its
most basic level, Race can be defining as a concept that signifies and
symbolizes sociopolitical conflicts and interests in reference to different
types of human bodies. Although the concept of race appeals to biologically
based human characteristics (phenotype), selection of these particular human
features for purposes of racial signification is always and necessarily a
social and historical process” (Winant H.,
p172). The idea of race has been
going for hundreds of years, in history race has been a method people used to
categorized individuals by their skin color. People have made it’s a social
construct. In the film “Race: The Power
of an Illusion, Episode 1,” microbiologist Pilar Ossorio stated “There’s as
much or more diversity and genetic difference within any racial group as there
is between people of different racial groups.” This film shows that students use their DNA as
a genetic code to explore the biology of human variation. In this experiment
the students believed that their genetic code would be most similar to someone
who physically looked like them. In the end the result was that their genetic
code was more similar to someone in a group different then their own.
Throughout the film race is proven to be a concept that has nothing to do with
genetic variation it is how the idea of race was informed to an individual.
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According to society I would be consider Latina,
I consider myself Garifuna who falls under as an African American. My mother is
Honduran and my father is Guatemalan to society they would be consider Latinos
because their counties were colonized by Spain Los Españoles. But just like in
America racism exist so does in central America, majority of the coast of
Honduras, Guatemala, Belize is fill with Garifuna people. Garifuna people are
Black Carib with African Ancestry who were never slaved. I consider myself
African American under the idea of my ancestors migrated from Africa to
Honduras and Guatemala and my parents migrated to the United States. Which gave
me the privilege to be an American. I
believe anyone as an individual you should be able to identify your race; your
Skin color should not matter. Even though race will always be a word that is
misleading or misunderstood, people has built an image around the word, and race will always be questioned.
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Christy Chavez October 3rd,
2016
References
1.Sankar, P., Cho, M. K., & Mountain, J. (2007).
Race and ethnicity in genetic research. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, (961–970)
2.Winant, H (2000). Race and Race Theory. (169-183)
3. Vidal, E. R., & P. (2016). RACE:
The Power Of An Illusion - Episode 1: The Difference Between Us (PBS
Documentary). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7_YHur3G9g
Further Readings
4.Herrera-Paz,
E.-F., Matamoros, M., & Carracedo, Ã. (2010). The GarÃfuna (black Carib)
people of the Atlantic coasts of Honduras: Population dynamics, structure, and
phylogenetic relations inferred from genetic data, migration matrices, and
isonymy. American
Journal of Human Biology.
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