HW 2/11

Plessy vs. Ferguson

There is a lot that goes into creating a law. Laws need to be specific, so that the meaning is clearly understood. Otherwise, someone can distort the law to mean something else. After Reconstruction, the Civil War Amendments affected African Americans rights. Plessy vs. Ferguson was the separate but equal law that affected African Americans. One very important law was the 1866 Civil Rights Act, this gave African Americans citizenship and some rights

The Mismeasure of Man

The author of this book is trying to explain how biological determinism favored those who were higher up in society. Biological Determinism was racist in how it measured the intelligence between races. He talks about the mistakes that were made when measuring human intelligence. The purpose of the book is to disprove Biological Determinism by showing that the experiments that were done were not effective.