Women's Studies 2162A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Folk Taxonomy, Racialization, Hiromi Goto
12 Dec 2017
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What is black identity: colour of your skin social construction, not something that was natural in our society until someone came and made it, black identity came from somewhere, the negative images of black people come from somewhere. Interpreted that they are a white persons slave. In 1834, slavery existed in canada - this is when it was also abolished in canada: we seem to forget that slavery is engrained in our history. You need 3 types of movement to affect change: you need people coming from different angles all attacking the same issue, white people are not going to give up power willingly. Indicates that 94% of our physical variation lies within different racial groups: this means that there are greater variation within different racial groups than between them. 50 shades of human: von luschan"s chromatic scale, 36 opaque glass tiles.
