SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Indian Act, Julius Evola, Visible Minority
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Was a us physician and esteemed at it. He collected human skills, filled it with marbles to measure brain volumes. Compared size across races, saw that races at top of society"s hierarchy (whites) had biggest brains and those at bottom (blacks) had smallest brains. It was common to believe in colonial america and across world that biology causes racial inequalities. i. e, if a race is poor it"s cause there is something wrong with them. These theories used to justify colonialization and slavery. But morton"s studies were inaccurate, had methological problems he used a lot of female black brains and a lot of white male brains (men naturally have bigger brains) instead of 50/50 gender proportion. In reality = white people don"t have bigger brains. 1920s = jews scored low on iq tests, today they score high. Their biology stayed the same but their socio-economic status and amount of resources increased since the 20s.
