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Race: A product of Culture Professor Janaki Natalie Parikh profjnp@ Introduction Interactives Race: The Pwr of An Illusion activity: /race/004_HumanDiversity/004_00-home.htm AAA website’s Race: Are We So Different? interactive /home.html Overarching Paradigm Scientific Racism: Paradigm has its roots in American science. It suggests that ppl belong to fundamentally difft. biolog. stocks that the concept of race can be scientifically supported Reality: Race is not scientifically supported, there is/are no gene(s) for race it is not a biologically based concept Typologizing Typologizing: attempt to classify ppl into discrete categories or “types” An age old tendency in human grps English theologian, C. Kingsley, describing the Irish as a “degenerate Irish race”: “human chimpanzees…race of utter savages…truly barbarous brutish…” Typologizing using “race” is relatively new Who have we discussed who has an affinity for classifying/organizing organisms into groups? “good ol’ Linnaeus!” Linnaeus C. Linnaeus, Swedish scholar, mid18th cent. Linnaeus: 4 variatas: H. sapiens Europaeus albescens H. sapiens Asiaticus fucus H. sapiens Africanus negreus H. sapiens Americanus rubescens His criteria? Geography perceived skin color diffcs Linnaeus, addit’nal category: H. sapiens monsterosus How scientific was Linnaeus? Blumenbach Johann Blumenbach, German scholar (~1790) Introduced the mod’n usage of the word “race” 5 “races”: Caucasian Mongolian Malay Ethiopian American Simply modified one of Linnaeus’ categories Which one? How? Skin color dist. map Hooton His “Big 3” racial grpings (1926): Caucazoid Mongoloid Negroid Notice the tremend’s skin color variation that he collapses into a category. So his is not simply about skin color, then what is his criteria? His specific perceptions of facial features body type Human Skin Color Distribution Factors contributing to skin color: Keratin (top layer) Yellowish hue Melanin Brownish hue, 2 types: “dark” “light” He