ANTH 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Asian Americans, Commodity Fetishism, Extermination Camp
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Great chain of being photo racism concept of hierarchy. As feudalism declined the growth of capitalism / Middle class merchant class . guided assaults on foreign lands. Religion and nationalism justification for imperialism acquiring lands ) Monogenism we had a common ancestor very different. Founding fathers are faced with contradiction all men. Terms like savages are equal were used . Reason scientifically justifying the political economy of race. Linnaeus was a man of his time attributed traits to. Camper craneomethf measurement of skulls trying to find differences based on morphology . 1790 - limited naturalization for immigrants who were free white persons . Clean white men vs. ignorant or underprivileged ( denigration of working people ) . Soap was a civilizing enterprise for ignorance can never cope for such. Christian abolitionists although men and brothers black people were less men than. At natives as being left behind by history. Tasmania set out for interracial equality posters that suggested interracial mingling.