KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Organ Donation, Sickle-Cell Disease, Kobe Bryant
12 Jan 2018
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1910 virginia: less than 1/16 negro blood = white". 1924: one single drop of negro blood = black". There are physiological variations and commonalities among us. Racial classification systems in themselves are socially constructed . What is race"? with meanings that (re)produce unequal power relations physical differences are related intellectual, moral, or cultural superiority. Race is something we do to each other (not genetic bases) Race is a social construction physical differences and similarities. A group of individuals who share genetically transmitted traits. Traditional racial categories are based on social meanings given to combinations of. A form of classification (and hierarchizing) of people based on the false assumption that. Tay-sachs syndrome people of ashkenazi (eastern and central european) jewish heritage. Spanish-speaking regions in south america, central america, and parts of the caribbean. The material effects of the social construction of race. It is something not a mere trick of the imagination.
