HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Insensibility, Reductionism, Drapetomania
10 Oct 2016
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Lecture 6 race, ethnicity and mental health. Biological di erences within racial groups are greater than those between racial groups. We take one or two features (skin colour, eye, shape, hair) to determine race but this has meaning within the whole of an organism. Physical features that we often imagine as indicative of race are found across racial groups. When we think about race, we take little bits of criteria and from that we make conclusions from race. We imagine because of external factors there is a di erence in internal ones. No such thing as a pure people or pure race. Race is not something that can be measured it is a category assigned by others. Race is still meaningful in the sense that we as a society treat it as a real category. Race is constructed in a relational sense, privileging some and degrading others. Race is constantly real-ivied like it is real.
