ANTHRO 3AC Midterm: Midterm: 1.1-7.1
8 Oct 2018
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Anthro 3ac midterm study guide: short answer questions, scientific racism. Classified humans into 5 categories: american, male, caucasian, mongolian, ethiopian. What: the concept of using science and measurement to explain inferiority between races and cultures. Where: stemmed from europe influencing other developing nations such as mexico, brazil, and colombia. Why: leads to white supremacy and inferiority of non-whites; justified slavery, conquest, and colonialism in europe. Who cares: many europeans used the concepts of social darwinian ideology to confirm and justify their social racism, which gave meaning to physical differences by proving superiority/inferiority between racial groups. Its widespread use guided the actions of european conquerors in the new world and shaped national identities and social structures, which is also important in the delegation of citizenship. The idea that whites are the superior race. Whites are regarded as civilized, more intelligent, and have the ideal bodily features: hypo v hyper-descent. Hypodescent: contamination results in association with the inferior race.
