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The Concept of Race

The Concept of Race. Alexa Weaver COMM1010. Ancient Egypt . Book of Gates During New Kingdom Era 18 th , 19 th , and 20 th Dynasties of Egypt Four noted races: Red (Ancient Egyptians) Yellow ( Asiatics ) White (Libyans) Black (Nubians). Ancient Greece/Rome. Hippocrates

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The Concept of Race

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  1. The Concept of Race Alexa Weaver COMM1010

  2. Ancient Egypt • Book of Gates • During New Kingdom Era • 18th, 19th, and 20th Dynasties of Egypt • Four noted races: • Red (Ancient Egyptians) • Yellow (Asiatics) • White (Libyans) • Black (Nubians)

  3. Ancient Greece/Rome • Hippocrates • Climate, Water Sources, Terrain, & Elevation affected mannerisms/characteristics • Aristotle • Climate attributed to physical appearance • Julian the Apostate • Stereotyped Ethnic Groups

  4. Medieval Theories • Mix of Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian ideas • Babylonian Talmud • Shem (Asiatic) • Ham (African) • Japheth (Indo-European)

  5. Race and Intelligence Carl Linneaus Johan Blumenbach John Ray SystemaeNaturae 4 groups of humans White Black Yellow Red Craniometry 5 groups of humans Caucasian (white) Mongoloid (yellow) Malay (brown) Negroid (black) American (red)

  6. Blumenbach’s Craniums

  7. Eugenics • “The self direction of human evolution”. • Francis Galton • Natural Selection • Adolf Hitler

  8. Effects on America • Slavery (1619-1865) • Plessy v. Fergusson (1896) • Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

  9. Race • Skin Color • Melanin • Sunlight • Thermal Adaptations • Cold Climates • Hot Climates • Definition of Race: “Geographically patterned physical differences among populations of the same species.”

  10. Conclusion • “Hence those marks which distinguish men who inhabit different regions of the earth, are not original, but purely superficial.” – George Louis de Buffon

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