ANTH 102 1nd Edition Lecture 20 Outline of Last Lecture Ethnicity and RaceI. Ethnic Groups and Ethnicitya. Ethnic groupb. Ethnicityc. Ethnic Feelingsd. Statusi. Ascribed statusii. Achieved statuse. Status shiftingII. Human Biological Diversity and the Race Concepta. Historically, scientists approached the study of human biology in two waysi. Racial classificationii. Explanatory approachb. Races are not biologically distinctIII. Explaining skin colora. Skin color is a complex biological trait influenced by several genesi. Melaninb. Researchers on this topici. Loomisii. Jablonski and ChaplinIV. The AAA Race ProjectV. Race and EthnicityVI. Hypodescent: Race in the USAa. Rule of descentb. HypodescentVII. Race in the Censusa. USAb. CanadaOutline of Current Lecture Race: The Power of Illusion videoI. Differences between usII. Understanding of race in the USAThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.III. Actual dataIV. So what then are actual racial lines?V. Race Division in USAVI. EugenicsVII. Gel electrophoresisCurrent LectureRace: The Power of Illusion videoVIII. Differences between usa. Belief that race is biologically realb. Accounts for differences in skin color, body shape, aptitudes in music, math, etcc. No common genetic markers that is constant within one raceIX. Understanding of race in the USAa. Requires a paradigm shift to understand race is a biological mythb. Belief that certain races have a competitive edge in some eventsc. No scientific place to start from in assigning differences to different racesX. Actual dataa. There are differences between populations but not significantb. Genetically we are among the most similar of all speciesc. Only one of every 1,000 nucleotides differs between any given individuald. Any given fruit fly is as different from another as a human from a chimpanzeeXI. So what then are actual racial lines?a. Not an academic questionb. Long history of searching for racial differencesc. Fundamental sources of racial difference?i. Searched head shape, eye shape, hair typed. Scientists are part of their social conceptXII. Race Division in USAa. Immigrants in ghettosb. Native Americans to reservationsc. African Americans to rurald. Those minorities at the bottom of the social hierarchy, it’s “natural” for them to be therei. Biology becomes an excuseXIII. Eugenicsa. Looks at races and Mendelian genesb. Advance a social agendac. Breed the best and the brightest, breed out the other minoritiesd. Concern about race-mixinge. Used by Nazi propaganda machineXIV. Gel electrophoresisa. Gathered genetic datab. Looked at blood, protein groups, etcc. 85% of genetic differences are within people from one local populationd. Small variation in genese. Geography better explains
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