In the first two chapters of Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts, the content primarily focuses on how the idea of race began in the American Society and different ideas that white people, who called themselves Caucasians, Causations created to make themselves superior over all other races. From the beginning, Roberts makes very clear statements about how she feels towards the circulating ideas, studies, and treatment to, initially, black people, who called themselves Negroes, and, eventually, all other races excluding whites. Roberts stated several times that “Race is not only interpreted according to invented rules, but, more important, race itself is an invented political grouping. It is a political category that has been disguised as a biological one,” (4). While reading the article, several red flags resonated in my brain about socially accepted beliefs about people of a different race.…
Reading Response (Native Americans) Football during the 1919-1930 became a very dominant sport for the Native Americans, especially the Haskell Indian School. The Haskell Indian School was opened in September of 1884 and consisted of just 22 students, however after just one semester the student body had reached 300 students. It was a school that had only 10 grade levels and subjects that we being taught to the students were mathematics, English, home economics, and industrial training. In 1896 Haskell decided to field its first football team.…
What typically motivates people to do anything? Self-Interest, and America did not fall short of this characteristic throughout the following years: 1895-1920. There were always hidden causes in America’s actions such as land, money, and power, which were strong influences in the young World Power’s influences. This is evident through the imperialistic nature of America always growing and needing somewhere to further its claws, the demand from the ever growing economic system, and the power that radiated from the growing nation, and even the president. Once America became aware of its strength, the wish to ‘expand’ became merely only a part of America’s natural tendency.…
Humanity has a habit of creating an antagonist through ideas and concepts, rather than a physical character. Racism and discrimination have become one of the most apparent antagonistic ideas. This previously was a very prominent problem, and although has declined through the years, is still an issue. George Dawson and Richard Glaubman’s, Life Is So Good, perfectly portrays the grip racism has on various places throughout 20th century America.…
Summary: At the end of World War One, as countries began to recover from the damages and horror of the war, the demand for Canadian products gradually increased, also increasing jobs. Industries adapted to the changes and many techniques such as assembly lines -- allowing production to be cheaper and faster-- were invented. As manufacturing rates dropped, so did the price of the products such as cars and trucks, allowing far more citizen to purchase vehicles. In fact, the vehicle ownership rate in Canada increased from 300 000 in 1918 to 1.9 million by 1919.…
The Expansion, and Development of the 1900s The most important economic expansion of the United Sates was the railroad. The first railroad developed in Baltimore, and Ohio in 1828. The rail road was 73 miles long followed by Charleston, as well as Hamburg railroad .The railroad didn’t only make it easier for transportation, export, and import it created an expansion in agricultural as well as population.…
Americans took note of specific characteristics that they believed were more desirable than others. A perfect example of this favoritism is the American opinion of the Nordic “race”. In The Passing of the Great Race, Madison Grant says that “the nation must chiefly depend [on the Nordic people] for leadership, for courage, for loyalty, for unity, and harmony of action… and devotion to an ideal” (Doc G). This example and glorification of a certain “breed” of immigrants is counteractive to the norm of shunning and putting down immigrants for their…
The five most revolutionary changes that took place between 1865 and 1920 are: The women’s suffrage, African-Americans gaining civil liberties, mass immigration, progressivism, and World War I. The most revolutionary of these being African-Americans gaining civil liberties. Others may disagree, by saying that women’s suffrage or World War I was more important and/or revolutionary, but separating an entire ethnic group and treating as anything less than human beings is despicable, and changing such ways is one of the most important things that can happen. If we as a society truly want to move forward, first we must acknowledge that no other human being is lesser or greater than the one staring back in the mirror: we must develop a respect…
The 1920s were an odd decade in Canada’s history. From an economic slump to an economic boom to the Great Depression, this decade toyed with people’s emotions almost more than any other. Now ‘roaring’ is an interesting way to describe this time period. “Roaring” has several definitions, but the one that pertains to the 20s is ‘prosperity especially of a temporary nature’ (merriam-webster.com). Now this name focuses on the positive events that occurred, and let’s be honest, this was not only a period of rejoice, but one filled with suffering as well.…
Miscegenation is a racial ideology whose history helps shape “many of today’s arguments about the meaning of race in American history” (Pascoe, 1996, p. 6). This idea can help trace the changes in 19th century racism and the modern ideologies.…
In a time when the government was under the philosophy of laissez-faire economics, or hands off economics, new reforms were established in the 1890s under progressive movement, and American Soldiers just returned from serving in WWI. The 1920s saw a significant amount of change like changes in culture and changes in media. In the 1920s a lot of things changed but somethings stayed the same. One thing that stayed the same was women's rights.…
This aspect of race can be explained by Fields concept of race as an “ideology,” where race has been maintained through laws, customs, and daily practices to address practical needs. Fields coins the term “ideology” as the “daily methods through which people make sense of the social reality they create” (Fields). Essentially, race became an everyday habit that the people used in order to justify what was going on in the world around them. Consequences of social construction is exclusion. In lecture, Professor Smith used a quote from Robert Miles stating “All instances where a specific group is shown to be in unequal receipt of resources and services, or to be unequally represented in the hierarchy of class relations.”…
The 1900’s were known as a time of advancements, whether it was the automobile or the beginnings of modern day electronics, as the technology industries grew, the world became smaller. Globalization was looked at as a good thing by some, and problematic by others; however, none of those critics could predict the massive change in policy that would ensue. One major industry was greatly affected due to globalization; this industry was trade. Many different agreements were put into place as a response to globalization. What started out as GATT, transformed quickly into the WTO, World Trade Organization.…
The Roaring 20’s The 1920’s in the United States were a decade of prosperity. Known as the Roaring 20’s or the Jazz Age, the U.S. was booming economically and evolving socially. The economy became the strongest in the world and social and cultural dynamism was on the rise. With the beginnings of mass culture, celebrities, songs, dances, and clothing turned the 20 's into a decade of fads.…
From the 1400s to 1750, there were various factors that affected American history, but none more substantial than race. Since Columbus stepped foot on the New World, up until the colonies became established, race has played a vital role in American history. Whether we discuss African Americans and the Atlantic Slave Trade, the relationships with the Natives, or the English, the significance that race had on the social hierarchy, labor, and the lack of order in American society is undeniable. When analyzing the role of race in American history, there is not a more notable place to being than the affect race had on labor in the New World. Before the enslavement of Africans, a lot of colonies relied on Indians as their source of labor, which…