Week 10 ANTH260 Film Race Is race biologically based o No genetic difference based on race that we cannot see through other kinds of variation o Racial categories created Racial categories are not universal o Way we view race As much genetic variation within a group as there is outside a group o Within a group is greater What is Race Race should be analyzed as a social cultural reality that exists in a realm independent of biological or genetic variations Because of several hundred years of racism during which both physical and psychological oppression have characterized the lives and environments of those people seen as members of low status races differences in health status and life styles among them have appeared and continue to impact all of us Race The notion of race has change with time A lack of civility Racial categories what is white has changed o The Wild Irish o Jews o Catholics What is Race globally Lower case race r o Inherited and unalterable by the environment and represented in political economic and social institutions accompanied by a clear hierarchy and manifest an exclusive nature o How are people using this term in different ways o Belief that it is possible in the name of science to classify and map people around the world in terms of universal languages and principles Capitalized Race R o US uses this system Race as Resistances RR o Proactive resistance against hegemony and social domination RR indicates the use of race as a discursive strategy to expose existing or contemporary racial discrimination and to operationalize identity politics Black Power Can you race a body Three different types of skulls still used today to race a skull Caucasoid Negroid Mongoloid Important in forensic anthropology
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