HIST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cesare Lombroso, Rhinoplasty, Carl Meinhof
23 Mar 2016
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The evolution of racial thinking optimism, order, progress, civility. Paris street, rainy day by gustave caillebotte 1877. Comfort, money, middle class, tradiional gender roles, changing urban landscape, icion (major eu capitals sill struggling w/ issues of modernity, sewage and pop boom) Encapsulates opimism on 19th c, accumulaion of wealth didn"t look this way from all vantage points (ex: for working class) Deiniions of whiteness standards for the majority pop, wrestling w/ who belongs and who doesn"t. Lang of superiority everywhere (board games, post cards, feature of everyday life) dominant sense. Opimism and progress, permeated science, religion, economic compeiion in 19th century. Forces at work that chipped away at this certainty (urban poor weakened this idea, inlux of jewish refugees from e to w eu), challenges idea of progress. Criique of ideas that industrial know how and science equals civilizaion. Belief in progress and prosperity jusiied the scramble for africa, bringing eu culture around the world.
