Caveman Mystique Mccaughey, Martha. (2008). Research Proposal

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This raises the question if the false ideal of the caveman is white, not black, as when non-white males embody the example of the caveman, they are condemned. McCaughey brings this to light, but her book focuses on gender in contemporary society more than race, even after her intriguing discussion of 19th century racial junk science in the form of Social Darwinism.

Perhaps the discourse of race and gender are not parallel examples of the misuse of science but are intertwined. The caveman myth is intent upon defending white male aggression, as white males are in power, but equally apt to be turned against non-whites. Male aggression becomes a weapon against the disenfranchised, even while it bolsters the right to aggression of the presumably white caveman.

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When non-white males are viewed as 'essentially' primitive, this is seen, rightfully so, as prejudice and a way of undercutting their abilities, for white males, this is used to justify power abuses -- domestically and sexually. In the 19th century "sexuality was so exceedingly racialized... scientists draw explicit parallels between black people and apes, but they also spoke of the sexuality of non-Western people as animalistic" but when white male aggression is sexualized today, it is seen as natural and necessary for society to survive (McCaughey, 2008, pp. 19).

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