ANTH 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Miscegenation, Racialization, Phenotype
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An arbitrary classification of modern humans, sometimes,especially formerly, based on any or a combination of various physical characteristics, as skin color, facial form, or eye shape,and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups. The genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits. The appearance of an organism resulting from the interaction of the genotype and the environment. The control of one nation by transplanted people of another nation often a geographically distant nation that has a different culture and dominant racial or ethnic group. Marriage or cohabitation between two people from different racial groups, especially, in the. U. s. , between a black person and a white person. The belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.
