GSU ANTH 1102 - Biology of Race (2 pages)

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ANTH 1102 Lecture 5 Outline of Last Lecture I Emergence of Race a Racialization b History c Bacon s Rebellion d Reason for Race II Science of Race a Linnaeus b Eugenics c Franz Boaz Outline of Current Lecture I Biology of Race a Biological Determinism definition b Conclusion II Reading Do Muslim Women Need Saving a Background of author b Issue One c Issue Two Current Lecture I Biology of Race a Biological Determinism an ideology that attributes differences in human behavior and ability and by extension social organization and stratificationprimarily to innate biogenetic characteristics b I Q was used to determine racial intelligence but it was determined that I Q is not entirely biological genetic as it is influenced by culture social situations and class i is why the bell curve was critiqued These 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 II Reading Do Muslim Women Need Saving a The author worked in Egypt with her father being Palestinian and her mother being American Jewish i Her focus is women s rights b Issue One exoticizing gender oppression i Making the mistreatment of women a far away problem with different people in a different land c Issue Two over generalizing i By saying all Muslim women in the Muslim world without addressing who where these ideas come from ii Women s rights activist compare themselves to abolitionists with the idea that both share moral people who worked to persuade others the author disagrees abolition occurred because of a complex set of economic and political factors