LEC #5: Understanding the roles of biological genetics and the culture in the constitution of the concept of race Flashcards

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what are the problems associated w/ the classification among human based on genetics?

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  • there is more genetic differences within groups than between groups
  • race is changeable
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what is to note about mixing Gene Pool?

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  • international migration causes the numbers of genetic pools and the lines b/w them increasingly blurred
  • so the idea of race as a biological fact, does not exist among humans
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What is the main process of modern evolutionary theory?

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-Mutation, natural selection, gene flow and genetic drift

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how is the concept of race not fixed?

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  • human biological variation
  • variation in human blood types (just because you are of one race doesn’t mean a different race won’t have the same blood type as you)
  • PolyMorphic variation in skin colour (meaning with in a race there could be many different skin tones and blood types)
  • PolyTypic variation in skin colour (ex: africans tend to have darker skin than swedish people)
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why is it not possible to use the biological theory of race to explain human variation?

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Because…

  • variation is continuous when it comes to race and skin colour
  • it ignores social structure/environmental factors
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what are the rejections for the biological theory of race?

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  • all humans today belong to a single species (homo sapiens) and share a common descent
  • while genetics shape human differences, things like body shape comes form nutrition and other aspects in the environment
  • skin colour is not an essential or unchanging physical trait because it can change over time depending on your geographical placement in the world
  • both lighter skinned and people of colour can have privileged and under-privileged positions in society
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what is the biological view of race?

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our biological factors connect with our internal factors which are a result from our dna

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what is systemic racism?

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the complex array of antilock practices, the unjustly gained political- economic power of white, the continuing economic and other resource inequalities along racial lines and the white racist ideologies and attitudes created to maintain and rationalize white privilege and power

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