Scientific Racism Flashcards
Pseudo mean?
Fake
What does scientific mean?
Evidential value
Define racism
Assuming superiority or inferiority based on race through act, deliberate or ignorant
Define segregation
Forced separation through certain characteristics
When did scientific racism game support?
Late 19th century
Where did scientific racism gain support?
The western world
Where was there an impact of ideas of race on?
Africa, USA, Australia and Europe
What was race use to describe?
A group of people who shared something coming
What happened at the end of the 19 century?
Claimed that the white race was superior than the black race
What did white supremacy lead to?
Believe swim prejudiced, oppressed and there were no human rights
How would people put into categories?
Due to look, religion and personality
What do these harmful stereotypes do you?
It allowed for people to be unjustifiably treated
What is the concept of scientific racism?
Believe that people are naturally superior
What is the result of scientific racism?
Growth of science and colonialism
What did the European and North American is increase?
Grobel power
How was global power increase?
Due to industrial revolution and imperialism
G to white people being seen as superior and the fittest what was that scene as?
The way of life and they was civilised in comparison to the indigenous people
What is scientific racism justify?
Occupation of land à la choir of power
Part of the white race who was inferior?
Jews, homosexuals, people with disabilities physically and mentally
Why were policies adopted?
To improve quality of human population
What was used to create categories?
Science and political theories
What dominated western thinking time?
Scientific racism
Why did science have great prestige?
It is believed to be based on facts and controlled experiments
What did scientific racism lead to?
Technological development and advances through the industrial revolution
What was the scientific method applied to you?
Social science
Name the three social sciences
- Sociology
- Anthropology
- Ethnology
Define sociology
Focus is on society, human social behaviour, patterns of social relationships. How humans developed
Define anthropology
Human societies, coaches, developments. What makes us human and Origin of humans
Define ethnology
Characteristics different to people. And the relationships between them
How did experts believe social factors were analysed in classified as?
The same way data was in natural science
How did zoologist and botanicals classify plants and animals?
Faced on the physiological structure
New human scientist believe based on zoology?
Humans can be classified the same way as animals and plants
What did the belief of being classified as the same as animals develop?
Hey Siri when mankind was made of distinct types
Define races
Permanent physical differences
What was the physical differences and links to?
Mental and behavioural
What did the certain general features of races justify?
Economic relations between colonisers and the colonised
What were the classification is based on?
And outward physical feature
Where were costs of people displayed?
In museums and world exhibitions
What are casts?
An idea of a wild family which creates the idea of native villages
How many differences between people emphasise?
Through ethnology
What was an excuse of colonisation?
People were displayed in native villages and colonial pavilions
What was the contrast of the simple or primitive way of life?
- Lifestyles
- Scientific and technological progress through the industrialised world
What was the justification of keeping people apart?
Scientifically difference
Who is separated from the whites?
Native Americans and Africans were distinct races separated from their rights
What is separation known as?
Segregation
What happened in 1900
Thousands of native Americans were killed, starved, defeated embattled, killed by disease and lost land
What happened to the people who remained behind?
They were kept in reservations
Define reservation
Certain group of people who are forced to live cornered off
When were the Jim Crow laws?
1870s and 1880s
I would people segregated during the Jim Crow laws?
Trains, buses, theatres, parks, schools, restaurants which were all public amenities
What was racism based on?
Scientific fact which combined Darwin’s theory of evolution
When was social Darwinism?
1859
Who published the theory of evolution?
Charles Darwin
What was Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution based on?
In the animal world species evolved by adaptation and selection
What does survival of the fittest mean?
The ability of the better adapted species to flourish
What was it called when Charles Darwin Siri was applied to humans?
Social Darwinism
What did social Darwinism believe?
Races were different stages in the process of evolution
Who was the fittest race?
The white race
Why was the white race the fittest?
The level of technological development and conquered parts of the world
What did social Darwinism provide an explanation for?
Unequal technological development across the world
What did social Darwinism believe in terms of hierarchy of races
Europeans were the most developed
Who helps supporters of the Empire building?
Felipe Fernandes
What is provided an explanation for imperialist in order to justify white power?
Genetics believe that inferior races would you want for extinction