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Blog 5
In the chapters 8,9, 11 in Davidson textbook and The Eugenics website displayed many events that happened during the 19th and 20th century. There were a lot of photographs and documentation of past events. In chapter 8, “ The view from the bottom of the rail” describes how blacks treated unfair by whites but eventually things started to change. In Davidson text it said, “ Freedom had come to a nation of four million slaves, and it changed their lives in deep and Important ways. But for many years after the war put an end to human bondage, too many freed people still had to settle for a view from the bottom rail. ( After the fact: The art of historical Detection, pg 199.) Even though African Americans were freed they still had to deal deal with being knocked off by whites. In their heads they still were “negroes” and didn’t have a decent education . In Chapter 9, “ The mirror with a memory” introduced Jacob Riis who was a photographer who lived and observed poverty through the streets of New York. The Davidson textbook it says, “ …show more content…
Eugenics is defined as the study of improving the qualities of human population. As displayed on the website in Social origin section discussed, These movements were to some extent, correctly Judge to be associated with Immigrants were seen as troublemakers and the eugenicists that the was problem was simple - selective immigration restriction”. Immigrants were not accepted into American society they were called social problems. They even put in school Biology textbooks, the chapter on Eugenics , which was “recommend the eugenic policies of Immigration restriction, sterilization, and race segregation”. (EugenicsArchive.Org: Image Archive on American Eugenics Movement. (n.d.). Retrieved December 04, 2016, from
Blog 5
In the chapters 8,9, 11 in Davidson textbook and The Eugenics website displayed many events that happened during the 19th and 20th century. There were a lot of photographs and documentation of past events. In chapter 8, “ The view from the bottom of the rail” describes how blacks treated unfair by whites but eventually things started to change. In Davidson text it said, “ Freedom had come to a nation of four million slaves, and it changed their lives in deep and Important ways. But for many years after the war put an end to human bondage, too many freed people still had to settle for a view from the bottom rail. ( After the fact: The art of historical Detection, pg 199.) Even though African Americans were freed they still had to deal deal with being knocked off by whites. In their heads they still were “negroes” and didn’t have a decent education . In Chapter 9, “ The mirror with a memory” introduced Jacob Riis who was a photographer who lived and observed poverty through the streets of New York. The Davidson textbook it says, “ …show more content…
Eugenics is defined as the study of improving the qualities of human population. As displayed on the website in Social origin section discussed, These movements were to some extent, correctly Judge to be associated with Immigrants were seen as troublemakers and the eugenicists that the was problem was simple - selective immigration restriction”. Immigrants were not accepted into American society they were called social problems. They even put in school Biology textbooks, the chapter on Eugenics , which was “recommend the eugenic policies of Immigration restriction, sterilization, and race segregation”. (EugenicsArchive.Org: Image Archive on American Eugenics Movement. (n.d.). Retrieved December 04, 2016, from