HLTH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Caucasian Race, Negroid
31 Jan 2017
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The concept of race as a category of identity did not emerge until. In 1779, johann blumenbach further proposed five major racial divisions including: caucasoid (white), mongoloid (asian), ethiopian (later. Jefferson promoted a more oppressive ideology in which caucasians were generally viewed as superior to other races, By the 1800s, racial classifications were used to create and maintain discriminatory social hierarchies. The ideology of racism involves beliefs about racial inequalities that are based on superficial differences in physical appearance and artificially constructed differences in intellectual capacity and moral character. Walker (2008) defines stereotypes as social distortions" that do not accurately reflect the diversity within populations and can have a negative impact on relationships between individuals and groups defined as meaningfully different. Epistemology refers to the study of knowledge, exploring questions such as how knowledge is acquired and what assumptions are made in the historical development of knowledge.
