ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Human Skin Color, Chris Rock, Nuclear Family

• School: UTM
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT102H5
• Professor: Andrea Muehlebach

Document Summary

The assumption is that the human species can be divided into separate categories and these categories are based on physislccal differences and we often think that these differences are in biological make-up. These divisions between people are assumed to be. A problem with the problem of race from a categorical perspective is that these groupings have boundaries. It is very hard to draw boundaries between people. The movie argues that even though there are individual differences between people in fact the idea of race as collections of pigmented individuals that can be differentiated between other pigmented individuals is false. Human skin color should not be seen in terms of categories but just skin color itself: race is not a valid biological concept. It doesn"t fit genetic data: genetically speaking, human are similar. We are the most similar of all species and share a lot more genetic material than penguins for example: genetic evidence shows that most physical variation is about.