HIUS 188 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Rape Myth, World'S Columbian Exposition, Midway Plaisance

• School: UCSD
• Department: History of the United States
• Course: HIUS 188
• Professor: Rachel Klein

Document Summary

Hius 188 textbook notes manliness and civilization, chs 1-2. Jeffries agreed to the fight to prove whites better than blacks. Johnson won: race riots broke out in every southern state, and a few others. Few weeks later, congress passed law against fight films. Class, gender, and the impulse to remake manhood: by late 19th century, mc power and authority challenged in ways that mc men interpreted as challenge to manhood. Multiple strategies to remake manhood: sex, class, race, and the. "manly" came to be a term describing moral attributes of men. "masculine" all attributes men had, good or bad: therefore applied across racial lines, since all men were masculine. Constructing male dominance through racial dominance: an ongoing. Imperialism: manly white man vs. uncivilized other, masculine primitive, all men have the same instincts for survival, enjoying outdoorsy, athletic, "savage" activities. "civilization" and its malcontents: linking race to middle class.