POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Smallpox, Jim Crow Laws, Genetic Variation

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We need to step back and ask how we got to the point of thinking this way. Eugenics- establish that there were racial differences, propositions race was correlated with hierarchical differences, improve the human race by breeding out the inferior in favor of the superior. Attached to value label about inferiority and superiority. Eugenicists tried to get a handle of what the different races were. Tell a person"s race by measuring his skull and femur. Human zoos- brought from places like africa, and other exotic places. Made to live for months in so called recreations of their natural habitats. Idea was that these people were used as specimen"s as particular racial categories. Sarah barton- bought to england in 1810, exhibited around britain, posed nude for scientific paintings for what were considered unusual atanomonic features. Died at the age of 26, possibly of small pox. Her skeleton and her preserved genitalia and brain were exhibited in paris until 1974.

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