Is race a biological reality, a social construct, or both?
Is race a biological reality, a social construct, or both?
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FROM AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE including anthropological theory,Format should be introduction, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion sections of the essay
Go to the following website: https://www.pbs.org/race/002_SortingPeople/002_00-home.htm
Try to sort people according to race - just so you know, you can englarge the pictures by double clicking on them.
The research question you should address is the following: Is race a biological reality, a social construct, or both?
Discuss your results.
How many did you get correct? What were the percentages for each of the groups?
What happened that surprised you?
Why do you think you got the results you got?
What do you think this means with regard to race, our definition of race, and our understanding of the differences we think we perceive?
Now, discuss discrimination from the perspective of a person who is oppressed - specifically, I want you to put yourself in the shoes of an oppressed group and speak
as if you are a person who experiences that oppression. I would like you, therefore, to pick a group from another culture outside your primary culture - for most of
you, this means outside of the US - and pretend to be a person from the group that is oppressed. What is the oppression based on - religion, sex, sexual orientation,
skin color or what? What problems do you face? How does the oppression affect your life, your livelihood, your happiness, and your freedom? If you try to do something
about it, what dangers do you face?