POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Eugenics, Racial Hierarchy, Pseudoscience
Document Summary
European travellers and adventurers came into contact with people of other continents, they started noting differences: race is specific to our contemporary world relevant distinction they made was that they were not christian. Colour of people"s skin wasn"t as noted as. Christianity and civilization: race was not considered a permanent characteristic of human beings. They could be made civilized, they could be converted it was thought of as a condition to be overcome: there was a sense of inferiority and superiority people from other races were human, but were childlike. Vote does not extend to children, limited to adults therefore were disqualified from franchise and were not included in citizenship: people of other races were not ready for government. In brazil, portuguese colonialism was however, brutal: marx discards this, miscegenation. Intermarriage between people of different racial groups: because there was a higher level of intermarriage, there was a very large population of mixed race people in brazil.
