PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Monogenism, Polygenism
17 Mar 2018
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This is the idea that all human beings share common genetic ancestors, and hence we are all essentially the same kind of being, with the same basic attributes: polygenism: This is the view that different human races are descended from different ancestral roots, and that different races should, therefore, be thought of as distinct species of animal. First african american to graduate from harvard with phd. Racial identities to the people who possess them. We are americans, not only by birth and by citizenship, but by our political ideas, our language, our religion. Farther than that, our americanism does not go. At that point, we are negroes, members of a vast historic race that from the very dawn of creation has slept but half awakening in the dark forests of its african fatherland: racial unity. Rejected the idea that people should embrace their racial identity.
