Explain the difference between an essentialist versus a constructionist view of race, and why this distinction matters for understanding racial-ethnic inequalities in historical perspective?
What will be an ideal response?
1. Essentialism assumes inherent, unchangeable features.
2. Constructionism asserts that race is invented by human beings, is the product of the masses of society, and is therefore changeable.
3. Essentialist definitions of race were historically used to legitimize discrimination and oppression of non-whites by claiming they were a “biologically inferior” race.
4. Constructionist perspectives on race assume that racial categories emerge in social and historical context and, in turn, can change over time. However, the ways in which race has been socially constructed in recent American history is to maintain the exclusivity of whiteness, and the other social, economic, and political privileges that coincide with it.
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