ANTH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Richard Lewontin, Negroid, Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas
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Conclude that the term (from a biological perspective) does not apply to humans. Discuss how racial classifications are largely social constructions that have been used to justify discrimination, exploitation, and extermination of people. Race has wide assortment of meanings over time. American culture does not often distinguish between race and ethnicity; probably better to use the term ethnic group instead of race to describe social groups (latinos, african. History of the study of race: from classification to explanation. Physical traits: skin color, nose, eye, lip shape, etc. History of the study of race: egyptians (1350 bc) Yellow for the people in the east. Black for sub-saharan africans in the south. History of the study of race- carolus linnaeus. Constructed four racial categories and assigned behavioral and intellectual qualities of each (american, european, asian, negro) Blumenbach based his taxonomy on human skin color and other physical skin color and other physical traits including features of the skull such as facial projection.
