POL SCI 61A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phenotype, Quadroon
26 Jun 2017
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Phenotype: many times it comes down your skin color, and sometimes your skin color doesn"t accurately identify what you identify with. A social construct that was created to oppress certain groups, it allows us to make. Genetic background of where a person descends, ethnicity is more of how you sense of the world and why certain people face certain troubles grew up, how your upbringing defines your ethnicity, up to individual. Although there are some physiological differences between groups, there aren"t any major differences. There is a history of science to find a biological differences between groups to justify discrimination. Yet, you can still see some of this today ex: the velcurb, an extensive effort by scientists to show biological difference between whites and blacks intelligence by showing differences in test results from whites and blacks. These scientific claims obviously used to justify discrimination and superiority.
