In: Psychology
1)A number of scholars have also discussed the problem of
conflating ethnicity and race with little regard for the social
structures in which diverse ethnic and racial group members
live
2) Briefly, race indicates power and connotes the ongoing hierarchy
in which one group considers other groups as different and
inferior
3) Racial differences may indicate differences in societal worth
that dominant group members impose on subordinate groups, which are
accompanied by stereotypes and prejudicial notions that minority
group members often resist
4) The social distinction of race and ethnicity are inventions—race
and ethnicity are alike in many respects. Both race and ethnicity
are dynamic sets of ideas (e.g., meanings, values, goals, images,
associations) and practices (e.g., meaningful actions, both formal
and routine) that people create to distinguish groups and organize
their own communities