High School Workshop Toolkit: The Social Construction of Race

Abstract

This lesson helps students conceptualize the idea that race is a social construction, especially in the way that Omi and Winant describe in their seminal work, Racial Formation (1986); Racial classification in each country is based on the country's social, cultural and political history.

In 2022, ASA assembled a workshop with high school...

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Details

Subject Area(s):

Race, Class and Gender, Racial and Ethnic Relations

Resource Type(s):

Assignment, Lecture

Class Level(s):

Any Level

Class Size(s):

Any

Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. 1) Explain what it means that race is a social construction
2. 2) Cite examples of the social construction of race
3. 3) Connect the sociological imagination to the social construction of race
4. 4) Understand Omi and Winant’s idea of Racial Formation