SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: The Philadelphia Negro, Madison Grant, White Supremacy

• School: U of M
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 100
• Professor: Terence James Mc Ginn

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Lec thu, 10/27/16 history of du bois (race theory) Key ideas: (once more, there is no key idea slide, so these are primarily notes) Reconstruction did not happen for a variety of reasons. The eugenics movement madison grant: the passing of the great race, 1916. Wanted to purify america through selective breeding. Lobbied for strong immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation policies. The first wa(cid:448)e of afri(cid:272)a(cid:374) a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:862) o(cid:272)iologists,(cid:863) (cid:1005)9(cid:1004)(cid:1004)-1925: refuting racism; social critique; generally theoretical and not empirical, hence quotations. Marcus garvey (1887-1940, born in jamaica, back to africa: bla(cid:272)k (cid:374)atio(cid:374)alist, (cid:862)ba(cid:272)k-to-afri(cid:272)a(cid:863) (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, wanted those of african ancestry to redeem africa and for european colonial powers to leave it. Booker t. washington (1856-1915: a popular afri(cid:272)a(cid:374) a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374) spokesperso(cid:374), la(cid:271)eled a(cid:374) (cid:862)a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)odator(cid:863) for (cid:272)ooperati(cid:374)g with white people, helped raise funds for black educational institutions. Du bois (1868-1963) biography: sheltered from racism present in most of us, har(cid:448)ard"s first african american phd.