Recovering from an over-surfeit of family celebrations, by chance I found an interesting talk. Little bit away from what we seem to most enjoy on this list (for eg an intense dissection of Mr B.F.Foster who wants to justify his own personal interest and support areas - Like for example Hugo Chavez. Marvyn, I'll maybe - come back to your post another time) - this is a consideration of how racism got institutionalised at an intellectual level and then got codified into social policy in the USA. It is a lecture by Charles King a somewhat prolific, polymath Georgetown History professor - interested in the Black Sea area ( https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about/people/charles-king).
The lecture is entitled "Georgians, Caucasians and the Invention of race," and was given at Harvard. It lays out the intellectual history of policies of 'race'. It is about an hour after some fluff at the start from the usual type of welcome intro etc at: https://soundcloud.com/dcresharvard/georgians-caucasians-and-the-invention-of-race?utm_source=daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fdcresharvard%252Fgeorgians-caucasians-and-the-invention-of-race It tracks outwards from the start of taxonomy from Linnaeus in Sweden, and becomes theoretically formed by Blumenbach in Goettingen (See: Wikipedia at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Blumenbach ). >From there the lecturer - glides onto Gobineau (who many of us will recognise >as one of the key 'justificatory' sources for Nazism. But Prof King loops this >back into the First USAA Census. (1790) and traces his influence down into the >American descendants of Francis Galton and the Eugenics movement. Leading up >to an influential writer Madison Grant ( >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Grant ). His book was used by Hitler, >one year before 'Mein Kampf'. A very interesting, intelligent and for me - quite a useful talk. It does eat out almost 1 +1/2 - 2 hours of time including some questions. Cheers H -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33291): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33291 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109364591/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
