PHIL 27 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sub-Saharan Africa, Genealogy, Essentialism
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Make sure argument is against author"s actual concept and not just the application of it. Race is a social construct and not a biological/natural concept. : get rid of a concept because doesn"t map to anything. In order to show that something is not something, you compare with others in the category. She addresses all concepts of biological race and refutes its. If there is a biological concept of race, it needs to map onto the full concept. Essentialism (members of one race all have one trait and no one outside that race has it): There"s no biological property in which a race has one exclusive. If most members of a race have one trait. Races don"t change but populations change over time. Southern european and jewish people were not considered white until 20th century. Isolated groups like protestants and catholics aren"t races but isolated groups like sub-saharan africa is. Clades (being descended from like 6 individuals using dna)
