Last weeks class discussion

Our class discussions last week were very interesting. We discussed the question "What is race?" There were a lot of different responses to the question including body type, hair, culture, and origin. We also discussed an article about the Europeans reaction to the indigenous women they encountered on their travels. It seems to me that they were very interested in the size and looseness of their breast and their fascination of the way they gave birth. So many of the stories that were told about these strange peoples were naturally exaggerated, and false. We talked about why they would tell such stories and what would be the reason they would want to make these women seem so unusual. We talked about whether or not slavery was justified during that period and of course it never is, but by dehumanizing the blacks and making property out of them it didn't seem quite so bad. I guess it allowed the "Good Christian" men an easy conscious in order to sleep at night.

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