1. Defining a Person by Skin Color By: Desirae White
Miscegenation
Defining a Person by Skin Color
By:
Desirae White

2. IT’S NOT SOMETHING NEW……
SOME OF THE RULES HAVE BEEN SET IN CULTURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL LAWS TO DEFINE RACE.
THE FIRST IS SIMPLY SKIN COLOR, WHICH WE THINK CAN DEFINE SOMEONE AS BLACK, WHITE, NATIVE AMERICAN, LATIN AMERICAN, AND SO MANY OTHERS CANNOT DEFINE SOMEONE’S RACIAL BACKGROUND.
THE SECOND IN POPULAR BELIEF(NOT TOO LONG AGO) WOULD LIKE TO THINK IQ DEFINES A WHOLE RACE OF PEOPLE.

3. DEFINING SOMEONE’S RACE BY BLOOD
“ ONE DROP RULE”-can rule whether you were Negro, mulatto, or quadroon
During WWII blood was even thought to not be able to be mixed through transfusions, as seen in films like “Lost Boundaries”(1949)
“One dash of black blood, makes a man a Negro, but a dash of White blood won’t make a man White.”(Collier)

4. Institutional Laws
Institutional miscegenation laws prevented a lot of interracial couples from marrying
Loving v. Virginia-Supreme Court overruled miscegenation laws due to the “passage of the 14th Amendment…which attempted to make sure that slaves would receive the rights of citizens by requiring equal right protection.”

5. Popular films
Passing-passing as another race such as passing for White when you’are a Negro.
Featured are two popular films that dealt with passing. (To the right are clips from “Lost Boundaries”)

6. IQ defining your race???
The Bell Curve written by Herrnstein and Murray would prefer to say their study is based on social ranking or class, but their study points out racial ranking instead.

7. Herrnstein and Murray’s argument did not put forward new evidence such as new updated studies.
Instead they used older information from Lewis M. Terman, who himself used Alfred Binet’s orginal IQ test from France.
Stephan Gould critqued the Bell Curve study and used example that if you take a group of natives and all the fathers were tall that means they would be tall and if they were short all the men would be short and so would their sons.
However if you change one variable such a diet that was more nutritional then the offspring could have a chance to be taller. (You could translate example to eduacation.)
Flawed study

8. Race came to be understood that it was defined by someone’s skin color
Due to skin color defining race as a person’s skin color people defied miscegenation laws
Herrnstein and Murray would like to have you believe that IQ is genetic and would rank intelligence on the racial scale and not social scale
In Conclusion