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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Scientific Racism"”.
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Scientific racism, mass collecting, and NAGPRA : a study of the transformation of relationships between museums, anthropology, and the public from the late 19th century to the 21st century.
… history of American anthropology, museums, and scientific racism as well as seeks to understand how the passage of Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) affected the relationships between museums, anthropologists, the public, and Native Americans from 1990 to the …
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Gendered and Racialized Experiences at Central State Hospital, Indianapolis, 1877 - 1910
… the 1900s. This thesis examines the impact of scientific racism and institutionalized sexism on female African American patients’ diagnoses, medical treatment, and the outcome of institutionalization through a close reading of hospital publications and a series of statistical studies of patient …
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Scientific Racism's Role in the Social Thought of African Intellectual, Moral, and Physical inferiority
Scientific Racism was a method used by some to legitimize racist social thought without any compelling scientific evidence. This study seeks to identify, through the Afrocentric Paradigm, some of these studies and how they have influenced the modern western institution of medicine. It is also the …
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All that glitters is not gold: authenticity and historical accuracy in representations of Mapungubwe
… re-interpretation, hidden agendas, scientific racism and an evolution of worldviews. In being as deeply meaningful and entrenched in the South African psyche as it is, Mapungubwe features in a variety of representations. For this thesis, a selection of these representations were made …
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On Historical Missions and Modern Phenomena: A Comparison of Germany and the USA on their Way towards the Second World War.
… expansionist philosophies, their encounter with racism, and the internal conflicts between authoritarian leadership and democracy.</p><p>I began with an overview of Manifest Destiny and the German myth of the East. Next, I summed up the deep changes that the First World War caused for both …
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THE MATERIALITY OF KNOWLEDGE: THE COLONIAL ROOTS OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
… connections with developmentalism, eugenics, and scientific racism. In the second place, a materialist conception of knowledge, of its relations with human labour and capital, and of its functions within capitalist production and reproduction is proposed in order to re-read its role in the history …
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"The Missing Ideological Link: Functionalist Ideology and the ""Scientific"" Construction of Race in the 19th Century"
… then, are the intellectual foundation for scientific racism and the modern conception of race as a function of biological factors. Second, the connection to functionalism provides the framework to reaffirm the socially constructed and historically variable nature of race ideology. While …
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Racialized Faculty and Administrators in Ontario Colleges: A Case Study of Three Ontario Colleges
… white supremacy to one of its tools, systemic racism (structural, institutional, and individual racism), along with Critical Race Theory and Whiteness Theory, guides the analysis of the data. The findings exposed several barriers in Ontario colleges that affect the hiring of racialized faculty …
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The Black Body in Political Photography, 1990-2020
… and the ways she revisits the history of scientific racism to expose strategies used to predetermine character based on race. Williams uses her nude body as a means to critique by positioning her self-portraits next to early scientific documents to evoke Black agency and to subvert the …
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Pests, Knowledge and Boundaries in the Early Union of South Africa: categorising, controlling, conserving
… from shared political imperatives justified by scientific racism: preservationism and white economic protectionism. Their ramifications continue to impact South Africa to this day.
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What Happened to Mexican Eugenics?: Racism and the Reproduction of the Nation
This thesis uses historical sociology to explore the ways in which eugenics was carried out in Mexico. Particularly, this research seeks to analyze the historical continuations of eugenic measures and ideas in Mexico and the ways in which this impacts and echoes in the twenty-first century. This, …
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The face of empire: the cultural production of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and California, 1904–1916
… the city as an imperial hub. The PCE employed scientific racism to justify white supremacy, Indian removal, and imperial expansion, both ""at home"" in the U.S. West and ""abroad"" in the PCZ, as imperial boundaries between ""the domestic"" and ""the foreign"" blurred. Fair exhibits and …
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Inheriting Shame: A Critical Analysis of “The Eugenics Review”
… surrounding race betterment by introducing scientific methods that were both inhumane and injustice based on their parochial, perceived notions that inequalities are ubiquitous. Categories like religion, race, class, nationality, gender, and many others have been the sources of …
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The Parallax of Personalized Medicine: A Critical, Socio-Medical Analysis of the Trajectory of Pharmacogenomics and Genome Wide Association Studies
… and biological concepts in genomic based scientific and medical processes like pharmacogenomics and Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) may further perpetuate medical inequity, health disparities, and discrimination. Thus, it is important that we (in the medical community) acknowledge …
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The Racial Mosaic: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Canadian Multiculturalism
This dissertation examines the intellectual origins of the Canadian federal government’s official policy of multiculturalism. The first half employs the methodology of historical biography and examines the life and thought of three Canadian public intellectuals: T. Watson Kirkconnell, Robert …
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Social Production of Intellectual Disability and the Mechanics of Moral Exclusion: Past, Present, and Future
<p>The institutionalized dehumanization in the United States continues to allow for people who are categorized as intellectually disabled to be legally warehoused and paid as little as pennies per hour to complete rote, repetitive work within segregated environments. An entire court case was …
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Monstrous 'Others': The Legacy of Race, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
In the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries, the construct of race became fixed in the collective consciousness of Europeans, in large part due to the efforts of Enlightenment-age scientists who sought to classify and define all species. Much of their research is eventually used to justify …