CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jim Crow Laws, American Civil War, Human Genome Project
2 Feb 2017
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Chys 2p38- race and class of children and youth. Argues that (nordic) europeans enjoyed whole brain development while the carib, Negro and irish from leitrim, sligo and mayo experienced lesser development. Applied the concept of recapitulation- ontology recapitulates phylogeny to child development as an explanation for racial differences. Physiological racial differences were minimal in small children, develop during adolescence. Anthropometry after the us civil war made the assumption that carinal structure development, particularly the closure of the cranial structures, indicated arrested cognitive development. Duri(cid:374)g u (cid:862)re(cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)tio(cid:374),(cid:863) this (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e a sedu(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e idea. African american children believes to mature earlier, thus creating a conflict for existence between brain growth and reproductive organ growth at puberty. Stereotype led to a fear of (and laws against) miscegenation. Social identity and in-group theory: prejudice maintains boundaries of social groups. Problem with the arbitrariness of these groups. A set of laws aimed at segregating whites and blacks after the civil war until the mid.
