The birth of modern racism

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I. Source discussionII. The Case of the IrishIII. The Problem with JewsIV. Colonial Others

• La Razza/Das Volk

• The People

• Identification with National/ethnic groups

• Biological Determinism/Social Darwinism/Social Lamarckianism

Background

British Views

The Role of Religion

Republican Push

• Corn Laws

• 1867/1884 reform acts

• Home Rule

• The Strange Death of Liberal England

• Sinn Fein/Black and Tans

By 1871 Jews are emancipated in Germany/Austria-Hungary

Become fully immersed in national politics

Center-left Splitting of Judiasm

You can’t always trust online stuff… more in class

Meanwhile in Russia, Jews are only really allowed to live in the Pale

From 1880 onward, subject to increasing restrictions

Pogroms Hasidism

• Religious Basis

• Black Death

• Blood Libel

• Witchcraft

• Societal

Richard Wagner

Karl Leuger

Beyreuth

Houston Stuart Chamberlain

Aryanism

• Background Anti-Semitism

• The supposed deed

• The role of the Press

• Trial Part II

• Trial Part III

• Jewish Nationalism

• Theodor Herzel– Die Judenstaat– Must be in the Holy

Land

• Europe doesn’t want us, recent events show– Vienna– Dreyfus– Bayreuth

Craniometry

Biology

Anthropology