
How Race Was Made (Seeing White, Part 2)
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Races Ideas
Zorara's writings were widely circulated among the elite in portugal. By the 15 hundreds, you had other ideologues expressing similar ideas about african people. Linnaeus named four human races, blumenbach five. That was just the beginning of an unending argument how to separate humanity neatly into distinct groups. And this has always been a problem for racial science, racial science that will be hearing more about in a future episode.
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