POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jim Crow Laws, Pseudoscience
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Poliical science lecture 7 (race, ethnicity 7 gender in. Brue jenner: transformaion into caitlyn jenner, former olympian. The idea that gender is malleable and not based on science is a new idea. If he had become a woman earlier he might have been killed because society was not acceping in those imes. She refers to biology and hereditary and refers to be black. Your gender is what ever you feel it is, but your gender is not what you feel it is. Race making and the naion state (reading): states make race what, how why?] Eugenics: study and establish racial diferences, that some races were inferior and superior, favouring out the superior over inferior, hierarchy of races, breed out the inferior races. What the diferent races were and to make the study of race something more scieniic. Hoped to get a point where you can tell a person"s race by measuring head or femur.