Ethnicity and Race
Part 1
Learning Objectives for Ethnicity
and Race Unit
 1. Distinguish between race and ethnicity and the concept of what is
means to be a member of an ethnic group.
 2. Analyze historical and contemporary attempts to classify humans into
distinct ‘racial’ categories
 3. Assess the importance of geography in examining & explaining
patterns of human biological variation
 4. Differentiate between prejudice and discrimination.
 5. Differentiate between ethnocentrism and bias.
 6. Identify how race is socially constructed by different cultures.
 7. Apply types of ethnic interactions to classify past and contemporary
events.
Ethnicity and Race, Part 1
Outline of Lecture
Human Biological Variation and the
Concept of Race
Journal Entry Assignment
Four parts
Spans Part 1 & Part 2
Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity
Human Biological Diversity &
The Race Concept
History of the Concept of Race
Particular ___________________________
Egyptians: ___________________
Ancient Greece: _______________________
Arabs: ________________________________
Human Biological
Diversity & The Race
Concept
Europeans (mid-late 1770s)
Needed to explain new
discoveries
Classification system: ______
___________________________
________________of humans
Assumed ____________________
Human Biological
Diversity & The Race
Concept
 Color of one’s skin, skull
shape, and other physical
traits = ________________
 Phenotype = _________
___________________
________________________
What does this mean?
Human Biological
Diversity & The Race
Concept
 What is the potential
problem with using
phenotypic traits to
classify humans?
Human Biological Diversity &
The Race Concept
Journal Entry Assignment
Part 1, Race Card Project
Think about the word Race. How would you distill
your thoughts, experiences or observations about
race into six words?
Maintain the six word limit.
Human Biology & the Race
Concept: Explaining Skin Color
Natural Selection
Process that is _____________________
______________: _____________________
Summary of statement from Kottak:
Individuals who ______________________ have an
advantage over individuals who _____________, &
are more likely to _____________________________.
_____________________________determines whether
a ______ is beneficial.
Human Biology & the Race
Concept: Explaining Skin Color
Variation: ___________________________
Natural Selection
Important point:
_______________acts on
___________________________, but it is the
_________ that they are a part of that actually
______________.
Human Biology & the Race
Concept: Explaining Skin
Color
_________________________vs.
___________________________
What do biologists &
anthropologists mean by these
terms?
How does this relate to skin color?
Skin color = ______________
Human Biology & the Race
Concept: Explaining Skin
Color
 Solar Radiation & Skin Color
Melanin – ___________________________
_______________________– may prevent
________________
_____ = SPF 2-3
_____ = SPF 10-15
Human Biology & the Race
Concept: Explaining Skin Color
1940 diagram
Human Biology & the Race
Concept: Explaining Skin
Color
 Solar Radiation & Vitamin D Synthesis
Vitamin D needed _____________________
________________________________________
Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity
Ethnic Group –
Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity
Non-physical characteristics more
important than biological traits
Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity
Ethnicity: _______________________________
Affiliation with an ________________________
Ethnicity is ____________
Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity
 Status –
 What is your ‘status’?
 Ascribed status –
 Achieved status –
 Status shifting
Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity
Journal Entry, Part 2
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