Rony begins with an excellent chapter documenting the pervasiveness of racism in nineteenth-century scientific thought. Race was an evolutionary category, with Anglo-Europeans representing the peak of evolutionary achievement and nonwhites occupying a supposedly less evolved, “savage” position. This is one of her main points. Racism is all about who is the “other” and how they appear to “us.” She specifically talks about how race as we know it is a color configuration (p.10). She also names colors and when she does this I cannot help but think of how children pick their favorite color (p.10). I think this idea can relate back to the idea we discussed in class about children picking the white doll over the colored doll.
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