Today we had an "extra" class as a makeup for two sessions lost due to extreme weather. It was not mandatory, but if you don't have these notes, you ARE behind. Luckily, Aaron is to the rescue!
I also made audio recordings of the lecture. I cannot guarantee the quality, and I would warn against listening via headphones since there may be many sudden loud noises (coughs, bangs, etc) that override the voices.
These are .wav files you will have to download via Google Documents.
Part 1 of 2 (1:30-3pm)
Part 2 of 2 (3-4pm)
The rest of my notes are coming soon!
a time of shame and sorrow
Robert Kennedy speech after MLK's death
"violence of institutions"
Hegel
The Philosophy of Right
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre
promoted terrorism
Chinese Exclusion Act
1882
US - restricted free immigration to the US from Chinese
Chinese employed in mining,
instead of lasting only 10 years it went on for almost 61
piece of Federal legislation, affected all of the US but had a lot to do with the California gold rush
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America obtained the Phillipines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam
Open Door Notes of 1898/1900
Boer War in South Africa
British were the first to set up and use concentration camps
Extra:: A link. This is the music video to a highly controversial Afrikaner song, celebrating one of the heroic figures of the Second Boer War. I'm sharing it just to give you a visual, as it contains images of Boer families in concentration camps.
Boxer Rebellion and America's relationship to China
British involved in Asia, South Africa, threatened with a war with America when Britain threatened to intervene in a boundary dispute with Venezuela
America came to the Phillipines as occupiers
stayed 15 years
Vietnam-like scenario
strong anti-war movement
horrific human rights atrocities committed in the Philipines, both ways
Filipinos "our little brown brothers"
The White Man's Burden
white Christian west must come to elevate the "heathen" world
1924
Racial Integrity act
banned interracial marriage
sexual sterilization
America didn't have a national identity card
Native people exempt from the Racial Integrity act if you are less than 1/16th
first passed in Virginia, immediately copied by many states, almost all in the south
Hitler
born in Austria, 1889, died
Veteran of WWI
temporarily blinded by gas attacks
after WWI returned to a Germany highly polarized between political left and fright
1917 Bolshevik Revolution
many on the right disdained democracy
1923 Hitler led a failed attempt to overthrow the Bavarian gov't in Munich, failed, Hitler went to prison, dictated his book "Mein Kampf"
Mein Kampf came out in 1925
Hitler released from prison shortly thereafter, ban against him speaking in public was lifted, resumed his leadership of the National Socialist German Workers party (Nazis)
Central theme of the book was Aryan race (Germans) idealized by blonde hair, blue eyes, race was at the center of all struggle and life. Aryans to be the master race, all other inferior, including but not limited to Jews and Slavs. Jews are seen as a race as a threat to the Aryans for ultimate world supremacy, had to be eliminated.
Hitler's book was not very widely read; became more so after he came to power. (Too little, too late?)
**Race at the center for the ideal for the Nazis.
During this era, all over the planet, many countries in the developed west passed laws and policies that fostered removing groups of people from the protection of the law, making them vulnerable to attack in the name of the law.
general framework for this time period: 1860-1945 (but NOT limited to this period)
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