Outlines Section 1-3
outlines section 1-3
Concepts/Catching us up to 1877
Section 1
• Scientific Racism
• Categorizing mankind
• Christianity and monogenetics
• polygenetics
• American school of Ethnology
– Samuel George Morton
– Dr. Josiah Nott
• Phrenology
– George Combe
– Popularization: Lorenzo and Orson Fowler
• The Ascendance of the Aryan race ideology
• Count Arthur de Gobineau
– An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1854)
– Great civilizations all Aryan
– Miscegenation
– Source of racial theory for many, including Hitler/NAZIs
• Impact of race theory in the United States by the mid-19th century
• Social Darwinism: A more “scientific” proof
• Sex v. Gender
• Sex: the anatomical/physiological difference between male and female
• Gender: a set of values/beliefs constructed by societies based on perceived differences. Gender system: what men and women SHOULD do and be.
– Gender as prescription
– Gender as a vocabulary of power
– Gender as analytic construct
• Masculine and Feminine
• Remember, one does not have to be sexually male to exhibit masculine gender attributes. Nor does one have to be female to exhibit feminine values.
• Real world example: baby clothes
• The clothesline of gender
• New Ideas about Sex and Gender emerge in the 18th/19th centuries
• “One Sex” v. “Two Sex” models
• A Brief Encapsulation of Women’s status in early America (and beyond)
• Patriarchy
– Society of deference
• Coverture (femme covert)
• While the 19th century saw some decline in patriarchic ideas and in some cases some changes in coverture, these concepts had lasting impact in US History
African-American life in the post-Reconstruction South
Section 2
The Civil War
Concepts/Catching us up to 1877
Section 1
• Scientific Racism
• Categorizing mankind
• Christianity and monogenetics
• polygenetics
• American school of Ethnology
– Samuel George Morton
– Dr. Josiah Nott
• Phrenology
– George Combe
– Popularization: Lorenzo and Orson Fowler
• The Ascendance of the Aryan race ideology
• Count Arthur de Gobineau
– An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1854)
– Great civilizations all Aryan
– Miscegenation
– Source of racial theory for many, including Hitler/NAZIs
• Impact of race theory in the United States by the mid-19th century
• Social Darwinism: A more “scientific” proof
• Sex v. Gender
• Sex: the anatomical/physiological difference between male and female
• Gender: a set of values/beliefs constructed by societies based on perceived differences. Gender system: what men and women SHOULD do and be.
– Gender as prescription
– Gender as a vocabulary of power
– Gender as analytic construct
• Masculine and Feminine
• Remember, one does not have to be sexually male to exhibit masculine gender attributes. Nor does one have to be female to exhibit feminine values.
• Real world example: baby clothes
• The clothesline of gender
• New Ideas about Sex and Gender emerge in the 18th/19th centuries
• “One Sex” v. “Two Sex” models
• A Brief Encapsulation of Women’s status in early America (and beyond)
• Patriarchy
– Society of deference
• Coverture (femme covert)
• While the 19th century saw some decline in patriarchic ideas and in some cases some changes in coverture, these concepts had lasting impact in US History
African-American life in the post-Reconstruction South
Section 2
The Civil War