SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Samuel George Morton, Irish Canadian, Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas
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His ideas were used to justify 2 of the most oppressive forms of domination and injustice: colonization and slavery. 3 problems with his findings: cannot determine race by skull shape, morton"s collection of skull > unrepresentative sample, he didn"t ensure that the sex"s composition of the white and black skulls were identical. Canadian professor, peter sandiford > wanted canada to institute selective immigration to ensure that only the best and the brightest arrived > iq tests to support his selective immigration policy. Results: profoundly disturbing evidence > japanese and chinese ppl highest intelligence scores (he didn"t predict this) Ppl who face widespread prejudice and discrimination often enter sports, entertainment and crime in disproportionately large numbers for lack of other ways to improve their social and economic positions other avenues of upward mobility tend to be blocked. Prejudice = an attitude that judges a person on his or her group"s real or imagined characteristics.
