Race - The genetic makeup of an individual that, when expressed, determines the appearance and physical characteristics of an individual. However, no genetic makeup corresponds to any particular race, according to the Race: The Power of an Illusion, Part I, The Difference Between Us video. Therefore, race and biology are only related in that your appearance is determined by what genes are expressed in your genetic code. Two people can have the same genes, yet look nothing alike.
Week 2 addition:
The ethnicity by which society views you as, and accordingly decides what is acceptable and unacceptable for you to do, and also how other people can relate to you. This is discussed in Johnson's book Privilege, Power, and Difference in chapter 6 What It All Has to Do with Us. He says, for example, on. p. 81 that a male white manager often does not mentor a black female in the office because it is not a path of least resistance, it is one that would draw opposition from society because it is beyond the norm. Also ethnicity can either make you privileged or unprivileged, as Johnson shows in chapter 3 Capitalism, Class, and the Matrix of Domination. A white person is more privileged in society than a minority because that is how society is set up. The individuals created society to be as such, and the only way to change it is if the individuals do not perpetuate the system and make social society different.
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