ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cultural Relativism, African Diaspora, Social Darwinism
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Race is biology: social and cultural categorizations & invention. 3 contexts that brought race into existence: age of exploration (europeans discovering shit, rise of capitalism (search for new markets and gold/bling bling, rise of science. Race is used interchangeably (nations, types, varieties, stock) They were all natural biological differences (part of what people were, part of their (cid:271)iolog(cid:455)"s(cid:895) In new world: helped shaped colonial identities (who europeans imagined themselves to be, shaped form of slavery (ideas of slaves and economic institution of slavery, shape relation between colonists and indigenous people. Irish seen by english as lazy, filthy, barbarous, superstitious. 17th (cid:272)e(cid:374)tur(cid:455): irish ra(cid:272)e is (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidered as (cid:862)less tha(cid:374) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) sa(cid:448)age(cid:863) Given to stealing, amorality, and crime of every sort. A(cid:373)e (cid:862)sa(cid:448)age(cid:863) traits (cid:449)ere applied to natives and africans. Perspective on irish founded on religious doctrine (morally inferior) Perspective on natives and africans founded on scientific doctrine (scientifically inferior)
