WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jean Rhys, Railways Act 1921, Psychotherapy
16 Oct 2016
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How do we classify people according to race? skin colour, hair, ancestry, geography, facial features, etc. Linnaeus taxonomy: the system of scientific classification widely used in the biological sciences (after carl linnaeus: grouping based upon shared physical characteristics. Blumenbach"s (expanded upon linnaeus"s work) five categories: caucasian: the white race, mongolian: the yellow race, malayan: the brown race, ethiopian: the black race, american: the red race classification based on geography. Race is a complex & shifting categorical system: although it is ever-changing & socially constructed, race matters. Racialization: the process of assigning a racial category. Race can be analyzed culturally & socially, but it is always politicized: the structure of race supports a hierarchal society where some groups have privilege over another, the hierarchy was built to justify slavery & oppression. Race justified social inequalities as natural (10 things reading) Abraham lincoln: famously known as abolishing slavery, but believed in segregation & the inferiority of black people.
