SOC 225 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Scientific Racism, Carl Linnaeus
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Slavery in the north american colonies was unique. Key ideas: scientific racism has historically played a role in reinforcing racial ideology and racial inequality race science continues to be a factor, u. s immigration policy combines racism and nativism. U. s. immigration policy has historically excluded based on race. Race science influences immigration policy: citizenship was predicated on race. Race and racial ideology blend of folk and science (chapter 1) Scientific racism reinforces racial ideology and racial inequality (chapter 2) Europeanus: white skin; muscular body; warm, swift, clever, inventive. Americanus: red skin; quick tempered; straightforward, eager, combative. Asiaticus: yellow skin, mournful, inflexible, severe, avaricious (extremely greedy) Monstrosus: located everywhere; exaggerated physical characteristics (giants, obese, etc. ) Linkage of physical traits such a skin color with cultural/moral traits. Late 1800s: biological notions of race definition of race as populations which differ in the frequencies of some gene or genes .
