SOC 104 Chapter 6: Racial Formation in the US
20 Apr 2017
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Susie guillory phipps (1982-83) raised questions about the concept of race after she unsuccessfully sued the louisana bureau of vital records to change her race from black to white. The law declared that anyone with one-thirty-second negro blood is black. Assistant attorney general ron davis defended the law by saying that some type of racial classi cation was necessary for federal record keeping requirements and to make programs to prevent genetic diseases. Europeans (children of god) were distinguished from others (natives or people of different race) from expropriation of property, denial of political rights, slavery, and extermination. Race was thought of as a biological concept but the de nition has been debatable til this day. Race has de ed biological de nition & has discern the scienti c meaning of race to present day. Arthur jensen argued that hereditary factors shape intelligence. Social science favors race as a social concept rather than as a biological concept.
