ANTH-150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eugenics, Edmonton City Centre, Jim Crow Laws
23 Feb 2016
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Racism is expressing hostility or negative feelings due to our differences (colour, religion, ect. : acted upon single-mindedness or as a group. Antipathy (a deep-seeded feeling of dislike) goes beyond prejudice: often involves brutality, murder, genocide. Racist group action often justified with an ideology: doing the right thing". Racist theories and ideologies were manufactured by intellectuals. Racist propaganda: black males represented as ravening beasts lusting after white women. Lynching the beasts" justified: the right thing" to do. Extralegal executions for offenders": tortured to death. Racist laws to maintain blood purity" fear of sexual contamination (rape or marriage) The nuremberg laws 1935 & racial purity. Intermarriage or sexual relations between jews & gentiles prohibited: jew males: sexual threat to german womanhood". Hitler: attempted to exterminate every jews & every undesirable (or unfit) Before world war ii, racist ideology justified by scientific" research: superior genes and eugenics, it"s in my genes born to be in power.
