CL 2/13

I did not read the proper pages for Plessy vs Ferguson, but I did read from chapter one until chapter 2… (I will rectify this eventually) I must say there was a lot of redudancy in the first chapter, as in the defense, whom kept referencing the Constitution, would compare how rediculous it would be to separate blacks and whites in every normal thing that we do. For instance, the defense references how blacks and whites sit next to each other in a jury stand, they walk by each other on the road and vote together for the same political terms, so why can’t they sit next to each other in a train?

1. It holds that shared behavioral norms , and the social and economic difference s
   between human groups primarily races, classes, and sexes—arise
   from inherited, inborn distinctions and that society, in this sense, is
   an accurate reflection of biology.

2. That worth can be assigned to individuals and groups by measuring intelligence as a single quantity

3. The traditional prestige of science as objective knowledge , free from social and political taint.

4. Groups in Power

5. Both 2 and 3

6. Reification and ranking

7. This book, then, is about the abstraction of intelligence as a single entity,
its location within the brain, its quantification as on e number for each individual, and the use of these number s to rank people in a single series of worthiness , invariably to find that oppressed and disadvantaged groups—races , classes, or sexes—are innately inferior and deserve their status. In short, this book is about the mismeasure of Man. *

8. Influential and that scientists believed they were pursuing unsullied truth.

9. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and must be.