ANT207H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gene Mapping, Social Darwinism

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Professor Tanya Li Nov. 25, 2016
ANT207 LECTURE 11
RACE & GLOBALIZATION
ARGUMENT INEQUALITY IS NOT NATURAL
Socially organized, culturally mediated, institutionalized
Ex. class, caste, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age
Role of ideology = to legitimate inequality, make it seem ‘natural’/common-sense
COLONIAL IDEOLOGY
Racial difference was rationale for a rulewhites over blacks
Race/ethnic hierarchies also among colonized
Proposed that world was divided into superior and inferior races
Ideas of Social Darwinism survival of the fittest
Irrational/rational character attributed to race
Debate among colonial officials
- Was racial difference fixed/permanent, or could natives/colonized people progress if
given education/opportunity, etc.
RACE IN U.S.A.
Boas 1911 showed there was no biological base to race
No set of attributed that coincide
Ex. skin pigment, with height/character/intelligence
Range of variation within “group” greater than between (gene mapping now confirms
this; variations do not cluster into racial types)
Yet race remains powerful as an ideology still legitimates inequality, but with new
names
ETHNICITY: A polite synonym for race?
Often treatment as fixed (race-like)
Anthropologists challenge this
Ex. Frederik Barth ethnicity as a social process, linked to inequality
Boundaries are made through exaggeration, stereotyping
No ethnicity without “others”
CULTURAL DIFFERENCE: Another polite synonym for race?
Culture is now often seen as inherited, essential, fixed (race-like)
- “we are not racist, but those people have a different culture—that’s why we cant get
along”
- “they do not share our values”
ANTHROPOLIGISTS’ SOFT CONCEPT OF CULTURE REJECTS FIXITY, ASSIMILATION
TO RACE
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Argument inequality is not natural: socially organized, culturally mediated, institutionalized. Ex. class, caste, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age: role of ideology = to legitimate inequality, make it seem natural"/common-sense. Colonial ideology: racial difference was rationale for a rule whites over blacks, race/ethnic hierarchies also among colonized, proposed that world was divided into superior and inferior races, debate among colonial officials. Ideas of social darwinism survival of the fittest. Was racial difference fixed/permanent, or could natives/colonized people progress if given education/opportunity, etc. Race in u. s. a: boas 1911 showed there was no biological base to race, no set of attributed that coincide. Ethnicity: a polite synonym for race: often treatment as fixed (race-like, anthropologists challenge this. Frederik barth ethnicity as a social process, linked to inequality: boundaries are made through exaggeration, stereotyping, no ethnicity without others . Cultural difference: another polite synonym for race: culture is now often seen as inherited, essential, fixed (race-like)

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