Race Amalgamation In August of 1896, Frederick Ludwig Hoffman published a book called “Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro” for the American Economic Association. Included in this book was a chapter titled “Race Amalgamation” where Hoffman argues against the idea of race amalgamation, or racial interbreeding. Hoffman believes that if whites and blacks …
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Race Amalgamation In August of 1896, Frederick Ludwig Hoffman published a book called “Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro” for the American Economic Association. Included in this book was a chapter titled “Race Amalgamation” where Hoffman argues against the idea of race amalgamation, or racial interbreeding. Hoffman believes that if whites and blacks …
CL 7/15 – “Strivings of the Negro People” (PvF 140-149), “Race Amalgamation” (PvF 76-101), and TMM (92-104)
Strivings of the Negro People The references and allusions in DuBois’s text give give him and advantage with readers because they prove that he is intelligent and well-read. His references aid him in proving that African-Americans aren’t unintelligent, even though they are portrayed that way in the media. These references are a way to connect …
HW 7/12 – “Strivings of the Negro People” (PvF 140-149), “Race Amalgamation” (PvF 76-101), and TMM (92-104)
Race Amalgamation Hoffman was not a professionally trained social scientist and based most of his statistical analyses on the data produced by social science research Written for the American Economic Association Most of this research was guided by “scientific racism” Within this, different races occupied different levels on an evolutionary scale where whites were the …
CL 7/12 – “The Race Question in the United States” and TMM (82-92)
TMM Gould believes that Morton’s work is not a case of conscious fraud because he has honestly convinced himself that he has no prior prejudices that will affect his studies, and is unaware of the fact that he is sort of unconsciously forcing his data to fit in with prejudices he thinks he doesn’t have …
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HW 7/10 – “The Race Question in the United States” and TMM (82-92)
“The Race Question in the United States” John Tyler Morgan: 14th and 15th Amendment prove the existence of race aversion and prejudice that can only be held in check by law the social and political questions connected to the African race in the United States all relate to and depend upon the essential differences between …
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CL 7/10 – PvF and TMM
PvF The main discourse community that appears to be discussed in the reading are those belonging to the law community. For example, those who write and interpret laws. The editor himself has written books on law and literature, and is clearly knowledgable about this community. This community clearly fits multiple criteria given by Swales in …
HW 7/8 – PvF (20-38) and TMM (62-82)
PvF 14th Amendment was originally used to keep states from interfering with big businesses 13th Amendment interpretation is restricted in “the Slaughter House Cases” when Justice Miller argued that the 13th Amendment was created only to abolish slavery 14th Amendment interpretation is restricted in “United States v. Cruikshank” where Justice Field argued that it provided …
CL 7/8 – TMM and PvF
TMM biological determinism: the claim that worth can be assigned to individuals and groups by measuring intelligence as a single quantity craniometry (measurement of the skull) and certain types of psychological testing Determinists have often invoked the traditional prestige of science as objective knowledge, free from social or political taint groups in power both 2 …
HW 7/5 – PvF (1-20) and TMM (51-62)
TMM (51-62) biological determinism: the claim that worth can be assigned to individuals and groups by measuring intelligence as a single quantity craniometry: measurement of the skull psychological testing basic argument of the opposition: social and economic roles accurately reflect the innate construction of people determinists like to say that science is objective knowledge that …
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