The birth of modern racism
Transcript of The birth of modern racism
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