DANC 1900 Lecture 1: Week 1 Notes
11 Feb 2017
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Danc 1900 week 1 save the last dance. Lecture notes: genres of movie: ballet & hip hop, theory: dance as a marker of race and class, outcome: dance a means to transgress racial and class boundaries, definitions of race: Commonly used to refer to regional human populations assumed to be significantly genetically different from each other, though in the same species. A classification of humans beings into different categories on the basis of their biological characteristics. There have been a variety of schemes for race classification based on physical characteristics such as skin colour, head shape, eye colour and shape, nose size and shape etc. A common classification system uses four major groups: The term was once popular in anthropology, but has now fallen into disrepute, because the idea of racial classification has become associated with racism - the claim that there is hierarchy of races.
