ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture 1: Anthrcul101

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Thomas Chivens

Document Summary

Mythologies of american slavery and the north . Audrey smedley, the history of the idea of race and why it matters . The people they early associated this with were the irish. They link whiteness with religion (christianity) not with race or skin color. Made a distinction between christians and heathens (people from africa who commonly didn"t follow christianity) Assimilation into whiteness because they"re all christian. Phenotypic/color/origin begin to make a difference and go into law. Whiteness and blackness replace christianity and heathenism.