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AA101 Fall 2005 STUDY GUIDE 1 Joseph L Graves Jr The Race Myth Why We Pretend Race Exists in America Chapter One How Biology Refutes Our Racial Myths 1 What are the criteria that Graves outlines which can be used to determine whether or not a specific population is a distinct race biologically speaking 2 Why don t any human populations qualify as distinct biological races In what specific ways do they fail to meet the criteria outlined by Graves 3 Why aren t physical differences proof that races exist 4 What are some factors pressures that account for genetic trait variation among humans 5 What effect do you think the timing of the publication of Darwin s On the Origin of Species in 1859 had on the interpretation and or understanding of Darwin s claim Chapter Two Great is Our Sin A Brief History of Racism 6 What did 19th century naturalists scientists view as the relationship between biological features and social position 7 Why was the publication of Darwin s On the Origin of Species such a revolutionary work for its time What was the central challenge that Darwin s work posed to the thinking of his peers and the accepted ideas of the field 8 What does Graves mean when he describes racist behavior as a ghost of our evolutionary past 9 How Does Graves describe the relationship between biological evolution and cultural evolution What is a meme How and why is it replicated How is this method of replication different from that of genes Chapter Three Sexual Selection Reproduction and Social Dominance 10 Graves suggests that if we lived in a world that had sloved the problem of how to fairly distribute its goods and services no one would get bent out of shape over cultural differences Do you agree with this claim If so why If not why not 11 What two events does Graves suggest are probably the most important events responsible for the evolution of modern societies Why were these events so important 12 According to Graves is there a biological basis for social oppression If so what is that basis 13 According to Graves is there a biological basis for racial oppression Why or why not Chapter Four Jungle Fever Race Sexuality and Marriage 14 In what way s are mate selection within a social hierarchy and American societal taboos about interracial sex and marriage related Fall 2005 Study Guide 1 AA101 15 Graves demonstrates the way in which social hierarchies have developed partly as a result of sexual selection Moreover within these hierarchies privileged males have had greater sexual access to the bodies of both the privileged and the underprivileged either through naked force or through social coercion What have been some of the results of these developments as they have played out in American society where privileged and underprivileged groups have historically been racially defined 16 What are the racialized sexual stereotypes in America that resulted from white male social dominance 17 How have these stereotypes shaped laws social customs and behavior throughout American history Why do you think these particular stereotypes were used to justify the necessity of the most extreme forms of social oppression including the twin barbarities of rape and lynching 18 Why have interracial sexual or marital relations elicited such severe responses from the oppressive race caste system in America against its subordinates 19 Graves suggests that Euro American males display violence and have institutionalized terror against African American and other nonwhite males because of the link between human heterosexual behavior and social structure What is that link 20 How did slavery of the ancient world differ from American slavery 21 How does America s racially stratified social order affect gender relationships both within races and between them 22 At the end of this chapter Graves claims that love really is the answer to America s racially determined social inequality What does he mean Do you agree Why or why not Chapter Five America Is Enough to Make You Sick Differential Health and Mortality for Racial Minorities 23 Graves identifies a health disparity in American society that breaks down along racial lines What does he suggest is the cause of this disparity 24 What does the biomedical industry suggest is the cause of the health disparity 25 In what ways do the physical and social environments that individuals experience influence their predisposition to disease 26 Graves appears to dismiss recent studies which conclude that certain medications prove more effective among whites than blacks or vice versa If such studies turn out to survive the test of time what would that say for Graves theory that Racially based medical differences just do not exist 27 How does Graves connect the FHA loan program of the 1950s to the health disparity between white and black Americans of the 21st century AA101 Chapter Six Europeans Not West Africans Dominate the NBA The Social Construction of Study Guide 1 Fall 2005 Race and Sports 28 In discussing the debate about whether or not athletic ability is racially determined Graves refers to one group of scientists who assert that athletic ability is racially determined as typologists What according to Graves is a typologist and why does their argument for racially determined athletic ability break down That is if the typologists were correct what should we expect to see in professional sports that we to not see 29 Graves concedes that athletic success is influenced by genes If this is so why isn t athletic success racially determined 30 If race does not determine athletic ability or success what does Also why might we tend to se racial clusters within a variety of professional sports 31 Who are John Carlos and Tommy Smith What are they in famous for 32 How have the specific claims of the racial typologists changed with regard to black track and field athletes 33 Why does Graves insist that we must deracialize our sports ideology For instance if sports are just a game does it really matter if the thinking of racial typologists which assumes racially determined athletic ability prevails in American society Why or why not Chapter Seven On Whose Nature Nurture Never Could Stick Race Genetics and Intelligence in the New Millennium 34 Who was Sir Frances Galton What is psychometry How are Galton and his work connected to the eugenics movement of the early 20th century 35 The idea that intelligence is a racially determined characteristic flowered in the early 20th century with


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