Racism Flashcards
Human evolution helps us understand that ____ does not exist.
Race
The study of human evolution shows us that all humans share a common ______. We are all Africans in the sense that we all descended from ancestors who lived in ______ as recently as _______¥ ago.
Ancestry
Africa
100 000
Why is the concept of human race not specific?
Physical features such as skin color, hair type and facial shape do not relate in any way to how people think or behave.
The ____ that determine the color of our skin are as unimportant as the genes that determine the size and shape of our ____.
Genes
Toes
How are we different?
Humans beings of different religions and cultures do not behave differently but their behavior is learned and not inherited.
What was apartheid ideology?
They used skin color and other physical features of South Africans to classify people into race groups.
What was the apartheid system built on?
It was built on racism, the false belief or a myth that certain groups of people are better than others.
Apartheid ideology said that ____ skinned people were superior to _______ skinned people. This ideology was sued to justify the ______ Of black South Africans.
Light
Dark
Oppression
What is oppression?
prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or exercise of authority.
What does the word apartheid mean?
It is the Afrikaans word for apartness.
What was Apartheid?
It was an inhuman policy which kept white South Africans separate from black South Africans. Black South Africans were referred to as non whites. They were separated into Native or Bantu, Colored or Indians.
Does race exist?
No
Why is it impossible to write a history of South African without racial labels?
Because Apartheid laws were applied according to racial categories.
Why did the NP not use the term African?
This is because the translation of the word Afrikaner is African. They called Africans, Natives or Bantus.
The apartheid government found it hard to define race especially what they called _____ people.
Colored
