Scientific racism

In 1950, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) issued a statement asserting that “all humans belong to the same species and that “race” is not a biological reality but a myth”. Numerous studies and research have been conducted on this issue. There have been several statements published by the American Anthropological Association and the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and an extensive amount of data collected to come to the conclusion…

dominance of white people over any other colored person. Many historians of Latin America insist that racism was not present in 15th Iberia and that racial stratification was a product of American economic conditions. This can be proven false thanks to the definition of race described above. According to the article The Iberian Roots of American Racist Thought, written by James H. Sweet, racism that came to characterize American slavery was integrated in cultural and religious beliefs in Spain…

Race is a social construction created by colonialism in order to make distinctions in superiority between cultures. Race is not biological, it never has been and there is scientific data to back up this statement. One way we know that race is socially constructed is through looking at different cultures. In Brazil, for example, there are “intermediate” racial groups that do not exist in the United States. “One of the most striking consequences of the Brazilian system of racial identification is…

in the article that prompts the questions above is the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States. To many, his election symbolizes an end to the era of racial prejudice. To sociologists who rely on objective data and the scientific method to judge social equality, however, the answer cannot be summed up based on the election of one person, regardless of how remarkable or symbolic it is. This…

In this article, she has explored and explained in detail various ways of resisting racism. Although there are more than three ways of resisting racism, however, the author has focused on only three practices since they are the most effective and beneficial of all. She has explained in the article initially that two methods of resisting racism are very common while one is not so widely known. The two strategies which are known widely are antirealist and realist…

place to look for employment without someone looking at like you committed a crime, and it’s being offered better educational opportunities because of what you look like. In watching the Me, My, Race and I slides we get an even closer look at the racism that affects this world we live in. It is the sad reality that minorities have to live with day in and day out. In one of the slides something that stuck out to be was that white people are simply people while all other minorities have a label.…

Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner, names people have all come to know because of the fight they have both lost individually due to being African American. The issue of racism against African Americans has become problematic, but none more so than in the medical field. The medical field has been set up in numerous ways to discriminate against African Americans. Using tools to score people of color low on medical exams, infecting people with diseases that often ended in death, and even taking…

Throughout the 1920’s, racism and sexism held a major role in society to now where the civil rights movement has made more progress, by 2112, there will be little to no gap with wage, more interracial couples and complete racial equality. Fitzgerald’s message about racism and sexism was that it was prominent social construct in that time period illustrating with Tom’s character. With Tom, he would tear down others during his process of becoming successful. By him being white, he saw himself as…

there is no biological basis for race, but still many legal institutions use biological arguments about race. From my previous knowledge I know that we divide us in White, Black and Yellow. This is more about the perspective of society than the scientific origin of race. Europeans divided the humankind in the Middle Ages as Caucasoid, Negroid and Mongoloid and excluded all the people…

to end discrimination is by treating individuals as equally as possible, without regard to race, culture, or ethnicity” (Psychology Today 2011). The video starts off by saying that race is not biological and that racism/race is a social construct (“Why Colorblindness Will NOT End Racism” 2016). The speaker then explains how “race is a structural foundation of power”. She discusses how the biological definition of subspecies and how it is often confused with human race. The video includes a quote…