ENGLISH 3A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Human Genome Project, Color Blindness, American Anthropological Association

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 3A03
• Professor: Professor Coleman

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Biological: that things like skin colour, eye shape, or genetic make up define a person"s race into categories, and then to explain these categories as (cid:498)real(cid:499) (cid:523)pg. She uses race/ethnicity: she adds the social distinctions to what we think race is. Social/ relational: the race has been invented as a way to divide people up. Location, religion, linguistics create different groups of people biological, and/ or cultural differences that are essentialized and define resources, choices, and opportunities based on social representations of. Melissa weiner"s definition of race/ ethnicity is, (cid:498)ascribed physical, inferiority/ superiority attached to these differences(cid:499) (cid:498)group(cid:499) and outside there (cid:498) group(cid:499), over simplified, obvious and. Send me event notices relevant to this class. Aulette, a global view of race and racism. Race: we are all human-> we grossly oversimplify race. Ethnicity-> ethnos (greek) nation-> share beliefs, language, collective identity.