WMNST 105N Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: American Anthropological Association
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Explain why race should be viewed as a social construction with no biological basis. Demonstrate how some groups are racialized or marked by their race, while others are not. Apply the three lenses, biological essentialism, race polarity, and white-centrism, as a means to rationalize and legitimate racism. Analyze and debate the controversy surrounding cross-racial identification. No scientific or biological basis for race. More genetic and biological overlap between races than there is within individual races. Skin color variations, eye or nose shape, hair texture, and other so-called. Markers of race are merely superficial evolutionary adaptations to climate, temperature, and altitude variants and have no connection to intellect, personality, or character. Rather than a product of biological essentialism. Rationalize and legitimate the enslavement of indigenous peoples. Visually distinguish the colonizer from the enslaved. You don"t see color because you don"t have to.
