SOCY 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Color Terminology For Race, Compulsory Sterilization, Heredity
25 Mar 2017
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Tension between using the concept of race and discarding it (colour-blind, race neutrality) We are socialized to see and notice race, so we cannot ignore race and its impact on social life. We instead have to be mindful and improve our perception. Emerged out of imperial thinking during the enlightenment. Race is a concept that signifies sociopolitical conflicts and interests in reference to different types of human bodies. Although it appeals to biological based human phenotypes. There is no biological basis for distinguishing human groups along the lines of race and the sociohistorical categories are imprecise is not completely arbitrary. The meaning of race has no fixed definition-- it has changed and it always changing. Scientific pseudo-scientific techniques and used to classify humans according to racial categories. Rooted in evolutionary thought at the end of the 18th and 19th centuries. Combines two lines of thought: heredity and aryanism/teutonicism --> nordicism.
