SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Jim Crow Laws, Genetic Diversity, Social Inequality
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Considered to be one of the most distinguished men in medicine at the time. Collect skulls and fill skulls up with marbles tot ry and measure the physical volume and space of the brain. In doing so, he compared this across races. Most successful races amongst hierarchy had the biggest brains. Those that ranked lowest in society had the smallest brains. He claimed that the people with the biggest brains were whites of european origins, then asians,etc and at the bottom of the social hierarchy were blacks. Stated that social inequalities had biological roots. Function of the kinds of different mental capacities that come with one"s racial background. Colonization and slavery were results of this oppressive evidence. 71% of morton"s skulls that he identified as negroes were women however only 45% of the whites were women. He would have to compare men with men and women with women.
