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