32411 Undergraduate Course

SoSe 15: Ethnicity, Race and Racism in US-American History

Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Comments

From colonists’ encounters with indigenous peoples onwards, the social and cultural racialization of specific groups of people has shaped history,historiographical writings, and ideas of human differences. Emerging in the 18th century and surging in the mid-19th century, (pseudo-)scientific racism, including the theory of polygeny, propagated the race-based classification of human beings, thus serving as a justification for slavery, and reverberated in lynchings and Southern segregationist legislation after Reconstruction. The dehumanization of Native Americans and the racialization and discrimination of particular groups of European immigrants (including conflicts as to who could be included in a conceptualization of whiteness), of Chinese Americans, and Mexican Americans were closely tied to political and economic power relations and reflected in grassroots Nativist movements. In this seminar, we will examine ethnicity, race, and racism in 19th and early 20th century American history and its historiography. The seminar will further familiarize students with primary source analysis and historiographical methods. close

13 Class schedule

Regular appointments

Mon, 2015-04-13 10:00 - 12:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Mon, 2015-04-20 10:00 - 12:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Mon, 2015-04-27 10:00 - 12:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Mon, 2015-05-04 10:00 - 12:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Mon, 2015-05-11 10:00 - 12:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Mon, 2015-05-18 10:00 - 12:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Mon, 2015-06-01 10:00 - 12:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Mon, 2015-06-08 10:00 - 12:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Mon, 2015-06-15 10:00 - 12:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Mon, 2015-06-22 10:00 - 12:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Mon, 2015-06-29 10:00 - 12:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Mon, 2015-07-06 10:00 - 12:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Mon, 2015-07-13 10:00 - 12:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

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