ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Jus Sanguinis, Jus Soli
4 Oct 2018
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Empirical evidence that supports racism, racial inferiority, or racial superiority. Scientific racist ideas received credit in the scientific community but are no longer considered scientific. Specialized scientific knowledge to justify by reference to scientific studies. Where: late americas & all over the world. Who cares: latin america: hypo v hyper-descent: Hypodescent: contamination results in association with the inferior race. One drop rule = if you have one drop of blood, you are considered that race. The example of pedro: he looks white, but all brazilians have a bit of black blood; he identified as black once in compton. Hyperdescent: phenotypic assignment that results in a multi polar identification, no notion of one drop or calculation of ancestry. 87% has more than 10% black, but identify as white. Where: latin america: dred scott 1857: Supreme court ruled that he was a free-born black who could not be citizen.
