ANT 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Racial Democracy, Melanin, Phenotype
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Anthropology denies race as a biologically sound construct. Phenotype - what we look like on the outside. We all used to look the same at one point. People all migrated slowly out of africa, climate changes translated to different. Theories that we are all related, all one race, but we have different appearances. Darker people near the equator, area of high uv. 1691 - when people started using the term white . Compare american to brazilian constructs of race. Declared itself to be a racial democracy. People descended from africans, europeans, local inhabitants. Many declare themselves to be black, even if many different shades of darkness. Individual racism - within the individual, can vary from person to person. Subtle forms - singling out a certain race. Thurgood marshall - first black supreme court marshall. Genocide - deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic group.
