Race Prejudice Group Position

“Race prejudice as a sense of group position” by Herbert Blumer: Based on this reading, the main argument is the customary way of viewing racial prejudice is through the realm of individual feelings which obscured the fact that race prejudice is fundamentally a matter of relationship between racial groups. A form of racial prejudice is a collective process, were he mentions on pg. 3 that “individuals who are accepted as a spokesperson of a racial group characterizes publicly another race group. To characterize another racial group, is by opposition, to define one’s own group.” He also mentions 4 dominant types of feelings in race prejudice in the dominant group on pg. 4 which are; 1. Feeling of superiority, 2. Feeling that the subordinate race is intrinsically different and alien, 3. Feeling of proprietary claim to certain areas of privilege and advantage, and 4. Fear and suspicion that the subordinate race …show more content…
221, “the first is to identity the major themes expressed in the mass of racial opinions and beliefs of the Anglos settlers…the second task is to outline how the farm order made the “races” of the region…the final task is to discuss how race ideas outlines the basis for an appropriate relationship between two communities.” These are just race ideas that provide explanations for the position of Anglo and Mexican and a control for the Mexicans. Its interesting how the newcomer farmers were assimilated as Anglo-Texans, because they transformed the pioneer ranch country into a modern farm world were new classes, new social relations, new definitions, and new symbols. For instance, in page 225 “the word of Mexican vaquero and bandidos had passed for most of the region…” this characterization constituted the primary language in which segregation was discusses and assessed among the