Science, Racism and Research methods

Question 1

What is the purpose of racism?

Answer 1

Used to show superiority over a race group or ethnicity.

Question 2

Which Pope issued an official letter in 1452 giving permission to “search out, capture, vanquish and subdue” enemies of Christ?

Answer 2

Nicholas V

Question 3

What contribution did Franz Joseph Gall make to scientific racism in 1796?

Answer 3

Argued that the shape of the skull determines human traits such as personality and intelligence

Question 4

Social Darwinism is the belief that what?

Answer 4

That individuals and groups accrue power and privilege because they are innately superior to others.

Question 5

What were some of the ways statistics were used in the Eugenics movement?
A. To measure differences between races and classes.
B. To advocate for the ‘directed and self conscious evolution of the human race’.
C. To advocate for the sterilization of mentally and physically disabled people.
D. All of the above

Answer 5

D

Question 6

What is the purpose of settler colonialism.

Answer 6

To eliminate, dispossess and replace the natives with settlers.

Question 7

What did Vogel see as the alternative to ‘a war of extermination with the natives’?

Answer 7

Demographic swamping

Question 8

What are the 3 violations of Te tiriti o Waitangi by the crown described by Rata in her 2020 paper?

Answer 8

1. Assuming absolute sovereignty.
2. Stipulating who could migrate to Aotearoa.
3. Dictating the rights that would be afforded to migrants once they arrived.

Question 9

True or False…
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 to combat ‘the doctrine of the inequality of men and races’.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

According to Dr Rata, settler-colonial racism and Western border imperialism have always existed.

Answer 10

False