What Is Gobineau´s Critical Race Theory?

Nevertheless, not all scientists were objective in their statements and paid their attention to biological facts. Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (186-82) is a founder of Critical race theory was recognized as a father of modern racism because of his prejudices about status of person according to his race. He argued the humans should be divided into three distinctive groups: White (Caucasian), Black (Negroid) and Yellow (Mongolian). The sociologist was sure that human races are not equal and have different physical, psychological, mental and other capacities. According to his theory races could be divided into higher and lover races. The higher races have superiority over the lower ones for the reason that they are different from others by skin color. The author of this theory emphasize that the greatest contribution to the creation of civilization was made by the White race which means that the White race has superiority over …show more content…
Gobineau presumed that ‘ the white race possesses superior intelligence, molarity and will-power; it is these inherited qualities that underline the spread of Western influence across the word. The black, by contrast, are least capable, marked by an animal nature, a lack of morality and emotional instability’ (Giddens, 2006, p.485).
The sociological meanings of race and ethnicity are closely related to each