My Spring, 2016 political reporting class is conducting team coverage of today’s primary vote in Pennsylvania. We have compiled a short survey to learn about voters’ experience as they go to the polls today. Please take a few minutes to help us out by completing the survey here: http://goo.gl/forms/uOWk261M9I. Also, if you use Twitter, we will be live chatting about the election using the hashtag #PAprimaryTCNJ after the polls close tonight. Thanks in advance for your help and consideration, and please feel free to share this link to the survey with any Pennsylvania voters you know!
Chapter 6: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Names White People “Caucasian”
by Prof. Felicia Steele
Editor’s note: Prof. Felicia Steele revives the Beyond Black and White Discussion group conversation about Dr. Nell Painter’s History of White People with this helpful introduction to this pivotal chapter which not only explains the origin of the term Caucasian as a synonym for European ancestry. Follow this link for our overview of the Beyond Black and White Discussion Group Book Club.
Chapter 6 marks a turning point in Nell Painter’s narrative, because she emphasizes the personal responsibility of individual scholars and their social networks in the development of racial ideologies. Since many of us have likely never heard of Blumenbach, it may be difficult to process how this chapter helps us to understand the history of constructions of race.
As I read the chapter, I was reminded of a couple of things: the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia and discourses around beauty that talk about physiognomy and skeletal structure, even in situations as mundane as orthodontia. How does this chapter help us to understand the development of physical beauty ideals and how they relate to racial identity?
History of White People, Chapter 5
The White Beauty Ideal as Science
by Simona Brickers
Chapter 5 served its own personal challenges within a social structure that speaks to convince all ethnicities that white skin is preferred. This topic escapes no one, instead it infects the mere grasping that one self is important in all ways that we emerged because we are precious from a higher source. Reflection draws on the foundation Chapter 4 provided understanding that sexual slaves serviced the wealthy as precious purchases… Read the rest at the Beyond Black and White Facebook Discussion Group.
This page has an overview of the Beyond Black and White discussion of Nell Painter’s book, The History of White People.
The History of White People, Chapter 3
This post on Chapter 3 of Nell Painter’s book, The History of White People, is part of an online book chat sponsored by the Beyond Black and White Facebook discussion group. For more information on the book and the Beyond Black and White book club, follow this link.
Many thanks to Simone L. Brickers, for the following summary and discussion prompt:
Chapter 3White SlaveryNell Irvin Painter wrote, “A notion of freedom lies at the core of the American idea of whiteness.”During the eleventh century Dublin was Europe’s largest slave market as Vikings slave traders fueled the slave trade. The over arching implication for white slavery was dictated by the demand for labor in the fields on sugar plantations. The history of white slavery fails to include incidents of brutality, poverty, or disenfranchisement at least no mention of abusive treatment was highlighted; however, the suggestion that people enslaved were different was implied. John Wintrop, governor of Massachusetts, proclaimed that, “…mankind as in all times some must be rich, some poor, and some high and eminent in power and dignity, others mean and in subjection according to God Almighty.” The social justification for slavery appears rooted within the Anglo-Saxon Christian belief of hierarchal order… White slaves were primarily convicts those identified as socially unacceptable…With this said, can you wrap your heads around white people being slaves?Do you think that white slavery can compare to black slavery?Does it appear that white slavery encroached upon the lives of whites people in ways making it challenging for them retain human dignity?
Collaborating Across Boundaries to Engage Journalism Students in Computational Thinking
This presentation was part of a poster session at the 2015 AEJMC conference in San Francisco, California. A paper based on this publication is currently under review. More information on the CABECT project is available on our research website.
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