Introduction (1)

Question 1

What type of racial ideas emerged during the 19th century?

Answer 1

Ideas which tried to prove that some people were superior to others, both physically and mentally, as a result of their race.

Question 2

People who believed these ideas thought that some races had ____ to a higher stage than others. These ideas were influenced by the natural sciences about ____.

Answer 2

Evolved

Evolution

Question 3

Did governments care if these ideas were based on scientific facts?

Answer 3

No, as governments used them to make policies and laws in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Question 4

What is scientific racism?

Answer 4

Scientific racism, sometimes referred to as race biology, is a pseudoscientific belief that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racism, racial inferiority, or racial superiority.

Question 5

What did scientific racism lead?

Answer 5

Led to prejudice, discrimination and-in extreme cases- genocide against people who were thought to be racially inferior.

Question 6

What is a genocide?

Answer 6

A deliberate attempt to kill specific national, ethnic, racial or religious groups or people.

Question 7

Scientific racism also led to eugenics. What is eugenics?

Answer 7

The encouragement of breeding amongst people beloved to be superior, and attempts to ‘breed out’ racial characteristics that were thought to be inferior.