How do you think the “knowledge” (those are scare quotes, meaning I don’t really think it was knowledge but scientific racism) created by biological determinists and white supremacists in the Supreme Court effected the laws crafted and applied to US territories?
I think the “knowledge” created by biological determinists and white supremacists in the Supreme Court effected the laws crafted and applied to US territories…. According to the video, “The judgement of the Supreme Court is that new territories were inhabited by co alien races and can’t understand Anglo Saxon principles.” They were confusing Americans based on where they moved to. For example in the video the speakers redundantly said “She is the daughter of Puerto-Rican Immigrants.” Technically she most definitely isn’t, they don’t understand. Like what Gould defines as Biological Determinism…Shared behavioral norms and the social differences of the groups. This explains that people can be totally different and share the same norms.
I think that the white supremacists and the biological determinists were just trying to fuse together the idea of racism and knowledge and how they impacted so much at the time.
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