ANTH 2 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Phenotype, Intersectionality, Hypodescent
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Race and racism race: a flawed system of classification (created and recreated over time), with no biological basis, that uses certain physical characteristics to divide human population into supposedly discrete groups. Organized the allocation of wealth, power, and privilege at all levels of society racism: individual thoughts and actions and institutional patterns and policies that create unequal access to power, privilege, resources, and opportunities based on imagined differences among groups. Physical anthropologists compare modern humans to a little village that has grown very quickly and within this village, people has been swapping genetic material back and forth quite freely (thus, family tree of a person becomes huge) People believe that things like skin color, hair texture, and eye color & shape can serve to categorize people. The wild goose chase: linking phenotype to genotype. Genotype: i(cid:374)he(cid:396)ited ge(cid:374)eti(cid:272) fa(cid:272)to(cid:396)s that p(cid:396)o(cid:448)ide the f(cid:396)a(cid:373)e(cid:449)o(cid:396)k fo(cid:396) a(cid:374) o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)is(cid:373)"s physical form.