POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Caitlyn Jenner, Human Zoo, Nationstates
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Next week guest lecturer katie, political action group the leak . The toronto city council is run by the first past the post system. Eugenics: a classification of a racial type from 1906 school textbooks. Goals: to study and establish the differences between races, to approve races existed and that"s theirs a hierarchy, to improve the human race, by taking away the inferior races. Eugenics hoped to show race by measuring a person"s skull or femur. In the early twentieth century most powerful. The high point was in world war 2. If you believe is superior races, there would be genocide. As the field of genetics grow, eugenics is pushed out. Genetics: genetically it doesn"t exist in science but shows still in experiences, race exists in history and politics. Because of the historical/political period were in when we look at people we look at race, in other periods people could be seen compared to religion: america, brazil, south africa.
