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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

5TH PERIOD NOTES

5th PERIOD NOTES

OBSESSION WITH PHYSICAL AND RACIAL FITNESS
THE 1980S WERE A TIME OF HEIGHTENED ENTHUSIASM FOR COMPETITVE SPORTS, PHYSICAL FITNESS, AND OUTDOOR RECREATION
-COLLEGE FOOTBALL WENT BIG TIME
-WOMEN BEGAN TO ENGAGE IN SPORTS AND STARTED TO DRESS ACCORDINGLY
THIS ENTHUSIASM FOR SPORTS WAS IN PART A REACTION TO THE REGIMENTATION OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND IN PART WELATHY AMERICAN'S CONCERN TO DEMONSTRATE RACIAL FITNESS
-WEALTHY AMERICANS WERE EMBARASSED BY THE ECONOMIC DEPRESSIONS OF THE DAY
-IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOODS, WHILE POOR, SEEMED FULL OF VITALITY.
IT WAS A TIME OF RACIST THINKING. RACIAL STEREOTYPES WERE COMMON
RACIALIST THINKING EVEN RECEIVED "SCIENTIFIC" SANCTION.
-MANY INTELLECTUALS BELIEVED THAT HUMAN SOCIETY DEVELOPED ACCORDING TO THE "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST" PRINCIPLE ARTICULATED BY DARWIN.
-IF THIS WERE THE CSE THEN, THE WEALTH OF THE INDUSTRIALIST MADE THE ANGLO-SAXONS THE FITTEST RACE AS OPPOSED TO THE IMMIGRANT LABOR FORCE.
IMMIGRATION:
MOST EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS TO THE U.S. BETWEEN 1880 AND 1914 (NEW IMMIGRANTS) CAME FROM EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE. THEY WERE ITALIANS, RUSSIAN AND POLISH JEWS, HUNGARIANS, SLAVS, GREEKS, TURKS, AND OTHERS
THE OLDIMMIGRANTS HAD COME FROM GREAT BRITAIN, SCANDINAVIA, AND GERMANY. THEY WERE CONSIDERED RACIALLY FIT SINCE THEY WERE THE STOCK OF THE ORIGINAL SETTLERS.
THE NEW IMMIGRANTS SPOKE NEW LANGUAGES, WERE CATHOLIC, GREEK ORTHODOX, OR JEWS, WERE RURAL PEASANTS UNUSED TO CITIES, AND CAME FROM COUNTRIES WITH LIMITED DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE.
-MOST CAME BECAUSE OF ECONOMIC HARDSHIP
-MOST CAME INTENDING TO FIND WORK, SAVE, AND RETURN TO THEIR HOMELAND
-WHILE IN 1880 THERE WERE SOME CHINESE, JAPANESE, FILIPINO, MEXICAN AND FRENCH CANADIAN IMMIGRATION, THE U.S. REFUSED TO ADMIT CHINESE IMMIGRANTS AFTER 1912 (THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT), AND JAPANESE MALES (GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT) AFTER 1907. MOST IMMIGRANTS WERE EUROPEAN. BETWEEN 1900-1910 IMMIGRANTS MADE UP 70% OF THE WORK FORCE.
-THEY TOOK THE HARDEST, LEAST DESIRABLE JOBS: BUILDING RAILROADS, MINING COAL, MAKING STEEL, PACKING MEAT AT SLAUGHTERHOUSES (UPTON SINCLAIR, A MUCKRACKER, WROTE THE JUNGLE) GARMENT MAKING SWEAT SHOP WORK.

AFTER TAKING NOTES WE WATCHED A FILM CLIP ON THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST COMPANY.

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