CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: District School Board Of Niagara, Miscegenation, Anthropometry
11 Feb 2016
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Quote slide: popular idea that maybe children are innocent (western perspective); someone suggested that there were biological difference of different races. Dunn"s civilization and cerebral development (1864) argues that (nordic) europeans enjoyed whole brain development , while the carib, negro and irish from leitrim, sligo, and mayo experienced lesser development (not as highly developed as dominant group) Applied concept of recapitulation ontogeny 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 u. s civil war made the assumption that cranial structure development, particularly the closure of the cranial sutures", indicated arrested cognitive development" (there"s no difference same species even if someone"s from. Toronto, and ones from africa; we"re all homosapiens) During u. s reconstruction this became a seductive idea. African american children believed to mature earlier, thus creating a conflict for existence between brain growth and reproductive organ growth at puberty .
