Questions on The Mismeasure of Man Reading and PvF Book
- Vocabulary is a little advanced; doesn’t make it read smoothly, have to stop and decipher often
Notes
- Plessy v. Ferguson Demonstrates Two Things
- How discourse and discourse communities have real effects for everyday people.
- How rhetoric is not only influenced but based in the discourse created by discourse communities.
Questions On the Class Blog for the Day
- The Mismeasure of Man
- Biological determination is defined such that society separations (i.e. race, gender, etc) are a reflection of biology aka what you were born with.
- Craniometry (measurement of the skull) and certain types of psychological testing.
- I suppose it states that race has as much of an effect on the sorting of people into species as politics and religion does.
- Groups in power
- I’ll take both 2 and 3 for $400 Alex, thank you
- Rectification and ranking
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