Yeisson Casallas Cardenas

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Race and English Language Teaching and Learning

Race, culture, and identities in second language education

In the last session we learnt about the main ideas and concept of race, etethnicity, culture,
racialization, racism, from the view of the Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Critical White
Studies.To star we left clear the idea that those are social concept that have been built through
years and different contexts of the human being.

A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories

generally viewed as distinct by society. In the other hand, race cannot have categorizations
because it could not be verified by biological construcs such as genetic characteristics

ethnicity is a category of people who identify with each other, usually on the basis of presumed
similarities such as a common language, ancestry, history, society, culture, nation or social
treatment within their residing area. This concept is related to nation because it means that your
ethnicity involves the place and the time where you were born.

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing

language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. Thought culture also implies patterns of
behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs and understanding that are learned by
socialization. Thus, it can be seen as the growth of a group identity fostered by social patterns
unique to the group. 

Racialization is the process of ascribing ethnic or racial identities to a relationship, social practice,

or group that did not identify itself as such. Also this idea expresses the interaction of a group with
a group that it dominates and ascribes identity for the purpose of continued domination.

Racism can be an idea or an ideology. It is the belief that groups of humans possess different
behavioral traits corresponding to physical appearance or social economic level and can be divided
based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or
antagonism directed against other people because they are of a different race or ethnicity.
Modern variants of racism are often based in social perceptions of biological differences between
peoples. These views can take the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems