POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Miscegenation, European Colonialism, One-Drop Rule
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Construction of identity- caitlyn jenner, rachel dolezol. The idea that you can choose your gender but you can"t choose your race: establish that diff races exist 2. there is a hierarchy implying superiority & inferiority 3. an agenda to breed out inferior races. Race making and the nation state- anthony marx. To study and establish the study of racial differences. To prove that race was correlated with hierarchal differences. To improve the human race by breeding out the inferior races. Construct typologies so humans could be classified by their body parts. Sara baartman- posed nude for scientific paintings, paraded around the country, sold to someone in france, her body was preserved. Ww2-hitler, believed firmly in eugenics, scientific racism. Believing that people are different in terms are race can lead to policies that discriminate, and ultimately to genocide. Genetically speaking race does not exist, but in reality it does.
