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This 5 page paper reviews the racist misperceptions explored and dispelled by Stephen J. Gould in this chapter of Three Centuries’ Perspectives on Race and Racism. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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There are, unfortunately, many reasons for societal discord. Often as not these reasons revolve around the misunderstandings and prejudice certain people harbor
against others. Misperceptions between the races are particularly prevalent and are at the root of many societal problems. Stephen J. Goulds "Three Centuries Perspectives on Race and Racism"
seeks to dispel the misunderstandings and misperceptions which fuel those problems. In Goulds (392) chapter "Age Old Fallacies of Thinking and Stinking", for
example, the obvious harm that the misconceptions that certain races stink has on societal interrelationships is emphasized. Mainstream society, particularly mainstream society that is composed of Anglo-Saxon peoples, have
had this misperception about more than one race. Gould points out that it once was commonly thought that Jews, for example, had an odor. While shocking to most
contemporary readers, such beliefs were actually a common form of anti-Semitism. Goulds point in that our misunderstanding of Jews, and perhaps
even a hatred that extended back to the time of the crucifixion of Christ, has resulted in such harmful stereotypes. All the way up to the Enlightenment, when conditions
temporarily bettered to a degree, the Catholic church, in particular, used its power, in part, to condemn any religion that was different from its own. Some of the stereotypical
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