SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Indian Act, Negroid, Exploits River
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Morton claimed to be able to distinguish the skulls of white and black people by the shapes of the skulls since this is not possible, morton"s sorting of skulls is invalid. Morton"s skulls formed a small, unrepresentative sample of 72 skulls. Peter sandiford argued that canada must institute selective immigration to ensure that only the best and the brightest arrived on our shores and that we kept out. An attitude that judges a person on his or her group"s real or imagined characteristics. A social construct to distinguish people in terms of one or more physical markers, usually with profound effects on their lives. A disadvantaged person or category of people whom others blame for their own problems. People whose perceived cultural markers are deemed socially significant. Ethnic and racial stratification in canada in the middle of the twentieth century, the people with the most power and privilege were of british origin.