Race in America
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race and democracy have been intertwined since the earliest days of the
Subject: race
Transcript: I think that race is the most significant organizer Of american society and has been. It's race that determined who would be slaves And who would be
Naturalization Law of 1790, The
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about the nation's first naturalization law (1790), which stipulated that only "free white persons" could be fully participating citizens.
Subject: race
Transcript: phrase from that point all Through the nineteenth century on into the early twentieth, You hear the phrase, "fitness for self-government. " And race ends
Class-Based Affirmative Action:
increasingly unpopular race-based affirmative action.
Subject: race
Transcript: students into, for Example, the university of california or the university of Texas as an explicitly race based program does. I would argue that class
Civil Rights Legislation and Equal Opportunity
Professor of Sociology and Public Policy Dalton Conley talks about Civil Rights legislation and equal opportunity in the United States. Professor Conley states that while Civil Rights legislation of the 1960's "opened the game up" and allowed Black ...
Subject: race
Goddard, Race and Intelligence (Part One)
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about Henry Herbert Goddard, who believed that race was the key to discovering
Subject: race
Transcript: that race was the key To discovering what people's potential was in the realm Of intelligence there were many people that work on this problem From
Goddard, Race and Intelligence (Part Two)
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson explains that, while Henry Herbert Goddard and others like him are often viewed currently as, "...crackpots...out on the fringe somewhere with bizarre ideas that aren't really related t...
Subject: race
Franz Boas Takes On The Eugenicists
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about Jewish scholar and Columbia anthropology professor Franz Boas. Professor Jacobson explains that Boas was, "...one of the first scholars who really started to question what w...
Subject: race
Transcript: perspective, Like measuring people's skulls, and measuring body type As a marker of race and then ultimately As a marker of capacity. Boas did the same kind of
Rise and Fall: Population, Urbanization and the Environment
There are numerous challenges facing most big cities in the United States today. These include managing population growth, adjusting to the post-industrial economy, and coping with class, racial and ethnic conflict. One option for those who can af...
Subject: race
Science, Race and Immigration
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about the ascendancy of science in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and the use of science to classify people into racial types and racial hierarchies. This gave rise to...
Subject: race
Implications of Disparity in Wealth Accumulation
Professor of Sociology and Public Policy Dalton Conley talks about the practical implications of having more or less wealth. He argues that those with adequate financial resources generally attend better schools, and have more financial support as t...
Subject: race