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
Name two ways inferior races were doomed for extinction?
- Natural selection
- Exterminated interest of progress
Why would inferior races die out?
Face of competition
Who has the biggest risk of dying out?
Primitive people
What did primitive people dying out lead to?
- Anthropologist were anxious to study primitive races as they were disappear
- Missionaries had a genuine concern for the well-being of people
How was the government pressured?
They were pressured to try and protect the primitive people in reserves
What did Europeans have the right to do you?
Take the land in force people to work for them
List the people who were on the lower evolutionary scale
- Physically handicapped
- Intellectually challenged
- Working class (let’s able to compete in society)
When did European settlers arrive in Australia?
In 1788
What was the social Darwinism explanation for the white people in Australia?
The decline of the population of the aborigines
When was the age of Melbourne?
January 1888
What were the indigenous inhabitants also known as?
Hunter gatherers of the Earth centric race
Who discovered Australia?
James cook
What was Australia originally used for?
A Penal colony which housed prisoners
Why did Britain have a major rebellion?
It was fighting Wales and Scotland as they went against the crown
Where were the prisoners of Britain moved to?
Vacant Australia
When was the wool rush?
1820 – sheep’s
I would the British emigrate?
To make more money and increase wealth
Why was there a conflict with the aborigine population?
They were assumptions of inferiority and it was believed that they could not be pneumatics
Why where the trees being cut offensive?
It was a secret place
When was gold discovered?
1850
How was Australia diversified?
Many Asians came when gold was discovered
Why was the British government nervous?
They were beginning to become outnumbered by settlers
Why would the British power be decreased?
GT the number of foreigners
What was stealing cattle seen as?
Armed conflict
When was the heart of scientific racism?
When Australia was Federated as an actual country in 1901
What laws were implemented during the Federation of Australia?
- Loss of access to land and food
- New diseases
- Armed conflict
Define genocide
Intentional attempt to exterminate
How many aborigines were killed?
95% of aborigines were killed unintentionally because they were racially unfit
Define assimilation
Become part of a new community
Define integration
Fit in
Why did the government passed laws?
To control the aborigines
Who was in control in the reserves?
Super Intendee or protector of the aborigines
What was the law code where they were deliberately make people fail a test in order to restrict Asian influence?
White Immigration Policy
Why will the aborigines lives destroyed by alcohol?
It was given as wages
How many aborigines died? Statistics
80% of the population died in 150 years
Why were the aborigines denied civil rights?
They were subjected to prejudice and discrimination
When did the policies change?
After World War 2
What where are the two reasons that the aborigines were set aside?
- Keep safe
- Seen as inferior and to keep them separate in order to not weaken the Australians
How many aboriginal children were removed from their parents?
More than 100,000
When was the stolen generation?
Between 1910 and 1970
How old with the children when they were separated from their mother?
4 to 5
Who was the aboriginal children live with?
White Christian families, missionaries and state orphanage raise them as white and restricted them from the aboriginal heritage
Why did the aboriginal children not have contact with a real family?
In order to assimilate them into white society
How are the children told about the parents?
That they were dead or do you not want them
What were the conditions in which the aboriginal children had 11?
They were not stand, closed and shouted which meant it was a poor standard of living
How was the aboriginal children kept under strict discipline?
Beating for breaking rules as well as sexual abuse
What was the aboriginal children education?
Manual labour in order to training to be domestic servants or manual workers without pay
What happened in 1995?
Australian government passed Commission of Inquiry - effects of forced separation
Why were public and private hearing is how old?
To gain evidence
What were the reparations of the stolen generation?
Money which could not fix what they had experienced
What does eugenics mean?
Good genes
How was married and breeding used during eugenics?
The ideal people who had the ideal physical and mental
What happened to bad jeans?
What’s not reproduced
What did eugenics promote?
- Selective encouragement or prevention through birth in the control of social, political and racial policies
- Nature helped in natural path by intervention
- Possible to reproduce a better human three social policies
When did eugenics gain support?
After World War I
Duty soldiers losing their lives what was in courage?
Human reproduction to restore the level of the population
What should the quality of the human reproduction be?
As high as possible
Who was encouraged to have children?
People who were seen as fit
Who supported eugenics?
Brainy people and democracies
What were the positive policies in eugenics?
Improve health, fitness, nutrition
How was social decline prevented?
Better diet, fresh air and regular exercise
What was the boat in order to promote a healthier lifestyle?
Swimming pools and sports grounds
How was your journey it’s not a personal choice?
Promoted as a national duty
What was the 1930s campaign in Brittany?
People will go on holidays in order to walk and cycle in the countryside. It was cheap and it recovered the economy after the great depression
What did you genesis do when they believe that there was not enough being promoted to be healthy?
Supported negative intervention which included compulsory abortion and sterilisation and prohibited sexual relations between the unfit
What was the most extreme form of eugenics?
Notsi Germany
When did the Nazis come into power?
1933 and they believed in the concept of the perfect Aryan race
What would women in courage to do in Nazi Germany?
Nurture children and not work in the workforce
Why did they promote the community healthy Aryans?
Working for the good of the nation
Why did people support the general good?
Outside were removed from society
Who was the compulsory sterilisation for?
Main to the email, dangerous have a chill criminals, morally feeble minded, this orderly Wanderers and the asocial
How many people are sterilised in 1937?
Over 200,000 people
What did eugenics have the potential of?
Becoming legalised mass murder
What happened after 1939
Between 70,090 3000 mentally ill people were kept in institutions and clinics in order to be gassed in euthanasia campaigns
What were the Jews regarded as?
Subjects who were excluded from the German population
How many people died followed by the policy of genocide?
6 million people died
Who were the white population data were discriminated against?
Roma Russians and Slav from the Eastern
What was held in Nazi Germany?
The 11 summer Olympic Games
Why do people not want snazzy used to host the Olympic Games?
Oppressive and racist policies
How many people attended the Olympics games?
50,000 athletes from 49 different countries
What did the Olympics represent?
Scientific racism, social Darwinism and eugenics
What is the difference between ethnicity and race?
Ethnicity is what males you who you are, whereas race is predetermined
What did create the concept of race allow?
- Justify
- Diffferentiate
What is the difference between nationalism and patriotism?
Patriotism is the love for the country. Nationalism is the choice to losten to the nation first
Define contenscious
Controversial
Why did people believe in pseudo science?
- Benefitted
- Re-education brain washing)
Define racial decay
Naturally will die out
Define racial suicide
Given choice to integrate into the greater society
What was positive eugenics?
Adding
What was negative eugenics?
Subtracting
What was the belief of eugenics?
Genes could be adjusted
Define pre-disposed
More likely
What are the two types of genes?
- Recessive genes
- Dominant genes
What are dominant genes?
Favoured in birth
Define sedentary
Boring
What is the human genome-project?
Created library of human genetic make up
