ANTHRO 128B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Franz Boas, Scientific Racism, White Supremacy

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 128B
• Professor: Angela C Jenks

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Anthro 128b race, gender, science -- lecture 9 . +critique ideas/method used to define racial groups (skeletal biology, +shift in general perspective resulting from end of eugenics movement. ~american born children have different head type (shape and size) than parents. ~(cid:863)t(cid:449)o t(cid:455)pes (cid:894)east eu(cid:396)opea(cid:374) he(cid:271)(cid:396)e(cid:449) a(cid:374)d southe(cid:396)(cid:374) italia(cid:374)(cid:895) i(cid:374) eu(cid:396)ope a(cid:396)e (cid:395)uite disti(cid:374)(cid:272)t. +a lot of it is inherited nutritional changes. +eugenics was major drive of holocaust make them rethink. ~wave of anti-colonialism challenge ideologies of white supremacy. End of wwii brought dramatic changes in way race was understood crainiology) Anthropology played important role in development of this view. Study comparing american immigrants and their children but their. Sho(cid:449)ed the (cid:862)i(cid:374)sta(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) of t(cid:455)pes(cid:863) a(cid:374)d the (cid:862)effe(cid:272)t of so(cid:272)ial a(cid:374)d geog(cid:396)aphi(cid:272)al e(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) ~geographic & social environment can change bodily form. ~differences on intelligence test due to social environment. ~conclusion: biological differences between races are small but social stratification leads. +iq argument to allow immigrants into the us.