ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Tunxis Community College, Insecticide, Eugenics
6 Jan 2021
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Race: essential part of the global discourse of power race deeply embedded in our cultural unconscious the methods employed. Identifying what skulls go in what groups. In mid 19th century they used to think that the shape of people"s heads differentiated them into different groups. Boas challenged this and other studies showed that i was not an indicator of race. Asserted the genetic superiority of the rich over the poor and that those were sere superior should continue to reproduce, while those who were inferior should not have control over their own reproductive decisions. Based on the fear that high reproductive rates in the lower classes would doom the nation to increase numbers of poor uneducated people. Scholars actually believed that iq tests determined that newer immigrants had less intelligence. Restricted immigration from e and s. europe race is a political concept. Mostly associated with genetically determined characteristics of which no one has control typically thought to be imperially observable.
