WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vise, White Supremacy, Carl Linnaeus
11 Dec 2015
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Gender, race, and colonizing knowledge"s: recap and elaboration- gender variance. Case study- how the sex gender binary can be damaging and complicated, dr. john money (nurture, gender through socialization) dr. milton diamond (nature hormonal basis of gender identity) Butler says the malleability (the social/ nurture) is violently imposed. Naturalness (the biological/ nature) is artificially induced. Cheryl chase: they can"t conceive of leaving someone alone : interrogating race. Over 90% of genetic variation is shared by all national, racial, or ethnic groups (reading: 10 things everyone should know about race) Race is defined by: skin color, brain size, hair texture, facial characteristics, genes, ancestry, geography. Linnaeus taxonomy: the system of scientific classification widely used in the biological sciences used to try and divide people in to particular racialized groups. Race is a complex and shifting categorical system. Racialization: the process of assigning people to a racial category. Race became a justification for the slave trade.
