Soc 323 Chapter 3

The first drug approved by the FDA to be marketed to patients of a specific race.

BiDil

Jews both through choice and coercion, have experienced relatively isolated reproduction and have been more endogamous than most human groups and thus tend to share more genetic similarities. One of the most consistent Jewish DNA markers has been the __________________________________

Cohanim Chromosome

Was one of the first to make the argument using phrenology that native Americans inferiority meant they were bound for extinction and therefore efforts to civilize them were a waste of time and money.

Dr Charles Caldwell

Sir Francis Galton coined the term ______________ arguing that the healthiest and ablest should be encouraged to have more children for the betterment of society.

Eugenics

His academic article "Race traits of the American negro" he compared mortality rates in particular infant morality rates in white and black communities to establish is "extinction thesis". He attributed high infant mortality rates to physical inferiority of the black population and any public or social investment in a dying race was a waste of funds.

Fredrick L Hoffman

Consumers choose which aspects of the ancestry DNA results to embrace and which to disregard, based on their own identity preferences and whether or not others are likely to accept their identity claims.

Genetic Options Theory

a branch of pharmacology that operates on the assumption that there are differences in the ways we respond to drugs based on our race.

Pharmacogenomics

Race is treated as a genetic fact for medical purposes.

Racialized medicine

a phrase referring to White women's contribution to the nation by having white children to grow the republic.

Republican Motherhood

In "The Bell Curve" 1994 _____________ and ____________ argued that intelligence explains inequalities along class and racial lines. Made the best sellers list

Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray

White sociologist of the Chicago school such as ___________popularized the idea that race was a social construct.

Robert Ezra Park

In 1882 the __________________ made it illegal for Chinese laborers to enter the country and denied citizenship to those who were already here.

The Chinese Exclusion act

The genetic sequence of the human species, a significant scientific accomplishment.

The Human Genome (2003)

Despite the wide range of physical appearances present in the human species we are genetically 99.99% similar to one another. This this research has been used to support the argument that race is a social construct.

The Human Genome Project (HGP)

African American Scholars such as ____________ were the first to argue that race was a social construct.

W.E.B. DuBois

laws prohibiting interracial marriage, emerged in many states because of fears that intermarriage would lead to the deterioration of the white race.

antimiscegenation laws

portions of a genetic sequence are associated with specific geographic locations.

genome geography

Geography and race do not always correspond, and ancestry and race are not the same thing. It would be more accurate to conclude that we are all _________________________.

humans originated from East Africa

The idea of ____________ convinced many white Americans that it was their divine right to claim and occupy all the land from the Atlantic to the pacific oceans. By claiming that American Indians, Chinese immigrants, and Mexicans living throughout the American west were inferior, white landowners were able to justify a seemingly insatiable demand for land and westward expansion.

manifest destiny

a now defunct branch of science that compared the skull sizes of various racial groups and used those data to try and determine group intelligence, social and cultural characteristics, and the presumed innate group differences between the races.

phrenology

using science to prove the innate racial inferiority of some groups and the superiority of others. (emerged in response to questions concerning the morality of slavery and gained traction as the global abolitionist movement grew in the mid 1800's)

scientific racism