Without any scientific pretense whatsoever, the concept of race was constructed to classify people by arbitrary physical or geographical characteristics. ... Race is a groundless classification system which distinguishes types of people based on physical features such as bone structure, skin color, and hair texture (Zuckerman, 1990). ... The non-sequitur arises when people (professionals included), contrary to any empirical evidence, use the term race to signify biological difference and physiological characteristics. ... It is simply a fact that "the term race helps to perpetuate the belief t...

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Immediately, we see this characteristic as a hint for racial distinction, but on what grounds exactly? ... This finding sets up the approach by white readers to interpret negative characteristics as a black quality. ... This interaction seems to be a depiction of more appealing characteristics attributed to the black culture. ... We then must look into whether the characters are choosing racial identity based on the recollection of their mothers in Maggie, or the inclination to ascribe negative characteristics to another race. ... Our unconscious minds are ingrained with arbitrary physical ch...

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In order to understand the main idea of developmental contextualism, one must have a firm understanding of the situation in which a relationship between an individual and their physical and social environment takes place. ... The main idea behind the Microsystem is that it is a pattern of activities, roles and interpersonal relations experienced by the developing person in a given settings with particular physical and material characteristics (Bronfenbrenner, 1979). ...

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Their physical differences were described in terms more attributed to beats than humans. ... Instead of attributing the Indians with human characteristics, the scientists totally ignored the fact that the "savages" may have created the art, so the question of who the mound builders were occupied the attention of professional archaeologists and other scholars for years. ...

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It becomes easier to understand why many felt that slavery should remain in tact through Robert Higgs quote of Senator Stephen Douglas saying "There is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. ... This is evident in a variety of areas including intelligence, performance on tasks or tests, and the possession of desirable characteristics or personality traits. ...

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The first is ethnic awareness which plays on the concious understanding of one's own as well as other groups on any given moment and the ability to understand differences among distinctive characteristics of various ethnic groups. ...

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The blacks felt encumbered by what the whites thought of as religious norms, and were discouraged to fully adopt Christianity when they couldn't even speak in church, a common give-and-take characteristic among traditional African worship.18 The inability for most blacks to disassociate the messenger with the message, like blacks such as Frederick Douglas were able to do, prevented them from fully accepting Christianity and created resentment towards whites and their religion.19 This antipathy is illustrated in a letter from a freed slave to his master, dealing with the effect that the ...

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Apartheid, literally meaning separateness or setting apart , was the ideology of the South African National Party that made the segregation of and discrimination against non-whites government policy. In this paper I will discuss how two different theories of state repression can be applied to the Apartheid regime in South Africa. I will discuss how High Modernism, a theory constructed by James Scott, and Organic Nationalism, a theory put forth by Michael Mann, contributed to Apartheid ideology. High Modernism rationalized, regulated, structured, and reorganized South Africa into a society t...

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