WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: David Reimer, Carl Linnaeus, Racialization
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Over 90% of variation is shared between national, racial or ethnicities. Race has an impact on how we live our life. Linnaeus taxonomy: scientific system of classification (caucasian, mongolian, malayan, Ethiopian, american: race is complex and shifting, race matters. Racialization: process of assigning a racial category, always political , classifies hierarchy, colonial world=genetically inferior. Abraham lincoln abolish slavery but had the ideals that races would never coexist (racialization of space) Drapedomania was a mental illness slaves who ran away from their owners were diagnosed with. Normally/abnormal: expected to exhibit behaviour that isn"t normal/pathological in dominant situations. Women and slaves (dependant, okay being owned) Madness became linked to evolutionary complexity", the result of stresses of being civilized (this idea surfaced after it was proven that blacks had less mental illnesses that white people)
