SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Scientific Racism, Eugenics
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People accecpt the idea that you gender is what you think it is but you race is not what you think it is. Eugenicies: establish different races exist/ public policy agenda and improve races/there is a hierarchy. Make study og race into sth that"s more scientific. Sara bartman: was a slave and was exhibited. Then sold to someone in france. she died at 26. Eugenics was influencial an dpowerful. in us it legitimated first slavery. More genetic diversity between any given variation. Black white and the idea of race has no exc=istance in genetics. They also noticed difference in religion, considered uncivilized. Initially race was not considered permanent it was something that could bechanged cause it only consisted of two factors. People of other races dnt deserve self government. Have both black and white and also have a hierarchy. Race is institutionalized in south africa and us. In brazil there is no legal encodement of race.
