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CORNELL, S . ; HARTMANN, D. : The Definition of Race Cornell, Stephen; Hartmann, Douglas (1998): Ethnicity and Race. Making Identities in a Changing World, Pine Forge Press/A Sage Publication Company, pp. 21-34 .
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CORNELL, S.; HARTMANN, D.: The Definition of RaceCornell, Stephen; Hartmann, Douglas (1998): Ethnicity and Race. Making Identities in a Changing World, Pine Forge Press/A Sage Publication Company, pp. 21-34
“Races (…) are not established by some set of natural forces but are products of human perception and classification. They are social constructs.” Cornell, Hartmann(1998, p. 23)
Race as biology • Social construction of race • Race: „the others“ • Ethnicity: „we“
„racism and ethnocentrism are not confined to ‚White‘ groups.“Richmond, Anthony (1994): Global Apartheid. Refugees, Racism and the New World Order, Toronto/Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, p. 43
„Sociobiological view“Pierre van den BergheVan den Berghe, Pierre: Does Race Matter?, in: Hutchinson, John; Smith, Anthony, ed. (1996): Ethnicity, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 57-63
Race is „defined as a group sharing physical (…) attributes.“ (p. 57) • Racism is a „discriminatory behaviour based on inherited physical appearance.“ (p. 60) • Biologically programmed nepotistic behaviour of humans. (p. 57)
„Norwegians and Swedes (…) could never be racists towards one another, even if they wanted to.“Van den Berghe: Does Race Matter? p. 57 • „To the English of the 18th and much of the 19th centuries, the Irish, although almost the same color as the English, were a distinctly inferior race.“Cornell, Hartmann: Ethnicity and Race, p. 32