PvF 1-20
- incident reveals violent indtimidation experienced by African Americans in the south.
- AA subjected to laws that organized society by race
- Racial mixture played havoc in creating division based on race
- segregated facilities not equal in quality
- PvF – supreme court ruled on constitutionality of segregation laws on 18 May 1896
- arrest was part of plan to have laws challenged
- Tourgee- leading white spokesperson of ppl of color, served in union army then as a judge
- only solution to race problem was education according to Tourgee
- His aim was for supreme court to declare segregation laws unconstitutional
- The 15th Amendment – Right to vote cannot be denied by race, color, or previous servitude.
- 15th Amendment didn’t stop states from banning people from voting, just found ways around it using other criteria, such as “no woman, white or black, can vote”
- 13th Amendment – Slavery or involuntary servitude is now prohibited
TMM 51-62
- socrates- three classes rulers, auxiliaries, and craftsmen
- biological determinism
- it leans in the position of power so there is the thought is it rose in political interest
- this book is trying to point out scientific weakness and political contexts of determinist arguments
- i thought it was interesting that science was said to be a socially embedded activity just because I hadn’t really thought about it like that.
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