POLS 3561 Midterm: Exam Review
20 Dec 2015
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Racism and the law exam review: compare and contrast the three major theories of race and racism and take a position by giving examples. Racism is a concept used to describe a complex set of beliefs, attitudes and actions which discriminate against people on the basis of skin color, country of origin or language. All theories of racism propose a persistent inequality among people that leads to the domination of the inferior by the superior. Racism started in 19th century europe as a biological theory. Humans were divided into races based on natural and inherent differences, with some of them with superior qualities and some with inferior . One of the very early biological theory was proposed by de gobineau who put forward the idea of the aryan master race . According to him race was a natural reality and the differences between races were also natural and have existed since the very beginning.
