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| Race | a group of people who share a set of characteristics and are said to share a common bloodline. |
| The concept of race is a | social construction and changes over time. |
| While you might be considered one race in the U. S., you might fall into a | different category in Brazil. |
| Phrenology | The study of the shape of the skull based the belief that is is indicative of mental faculties and character. |
| Johann Friedrich Blumenbach | He was an anthropologist and medical doctor in the 1700s that divided the human species into five races based on their skull shape. |
| Blumenbach's five races | Caucausian (white), Mongolian (yellow), Malayan (brown), Ethiopian (black) and American (red) |
| Caucasian | white |
| Mongolian | yellow |
| Malayan | brown |
| Ethiopian | black |
| American | red |
| Samuel Stanhope Smith | He was a Presbyterian minister that became the seventh president of Princeton University in 1795. He declared that the environment has a modifying influence over one's skin tone. |
| Samuel Stanhope Smith claimed that skin pigmentation is nothing more | than a universal freckle, occasioned by environmental exposure to sunlight. Basically he argued that climate effects skin color. |
| One-Drop Rule | The belief that one drop of black blood makes a person black. It became a means of drawing sharp racial boundaries in America. |
