HISTORY 197 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Smallpox, Mail-Order Bride, Undressed
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How do we make meaning of world . violently unequal historical documents. How do historians and ____ confront the limitations. Why does it matter that markus rediker reminded us that we need to think about local people. Locality gives us individuality which allows us to reimagine diversity. Help us learn about category of race > how identities are created affixed to racial categories to rationalize absurdity > nothing internal about race; race is not innate or inherent > where physical body belongs in social order. Teleology: way we interpret past by picking one outcome and look backward in time to see what leads up to our understanding of that outcome. Significance toni morrison"s lack of identifying people by race but our ability to somewhat recognize characters" races anyway > Lina as native american women though morrison never identifies her as native american > readers identify her through her interactions. Significance of categorizing race and religion as separate not together.
