GWST 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Inequality, Carl Linnaeus, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
16 Oct 2017
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Slide 2: when we say that inequalities like race and gender are socially constructed we affirm that, real difference exist, real inequalities exist. But these difference and inequalities are not natural, inevitable, or universal. They are a product of human history and social interaction and therefore can be changed. Slide 4: race is constructed as a binary lock, white black, white arab, white asian, white other, human other, white is standard, considered the norm and human. Other has been constructed and reinforced historically by science, the law, and social institutions: dehumanizing question: what are you? a question asked either from not determining sex or race history of scientific racism. Lecture 6: racism and intersectionality: constructing the people of the colonies as other (including the people of africa, the. Aboriginal people of north america, people of india and pakistan, the chinese, and.
