Plagiarism Risk Quiz: Social Science/Anthropology Passage 1
Below is a passage from a scholarly publication and a student's attempt to paraphrase the passage. Please indicate by clicking on the appropriate button whether or not you think the paraphrase has plagiarized the original passage. The result will help you determine whether you risk committing plagiarism while trying to paraphrase a source.
Original
passage below, taken from: Wade,
Peter. Race and Ethnicity in Latin America. London and Chicago:
But it is no coincidence that just as abolitionist opinion gained dominance in Europe, making the institutionalized inferiority of blacks morally insecure, theories [claiming to be ‘scientific'] began to emerge that could justify the continued dominance over blacks (not to mention Native Americans, Asians and Orientals) in terms of supposedly innate and permanent inferiority and now with the full power of scientific backing (Wade, 1997: 11).
Paraphrase: As Peter Wade reminds us, in his Race and Ethnicity in Latin America, when abolitionist sentiment began to threaten the dominance of institutionalized racism in Europe, those who preached abolition nonetheless believed that blacks were still inferior to whites, and so the abolitionists began to claim that the inferiority of black people was scientifically provable (11).