SOCIOL 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: François Bernier, Miscegenation, Scientific Racism
13 Jul 2016
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Race-refers to a group of people who share a set of characteristics--typically, but not always, physical ones-- and are said to share a common bloodline. Racism-the belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits coupled with the power to restrict freedoms based on those differences o. Racist thinking is characterized by 3 key beliefs: i. ii. That humans are divided into distinct bloodlines and/or physical types. That these bloodlines or physical traits are linked to distinct cultures, behaviors, personalities, and intellectual abilities. That certain groups are superior to others iii. The concept of race from the ancients to alleles. Race in the early modern world o. Scientific racism- nineteenth-century theories of race that characterize a period of feverish investigation into the origins, explanations, and classifications of race. Devised a scheme of four or five races based on the following geographic regions: Europe, south asia, north africa, and america: people who shared climates and complexions.
