Title: The Science of Race | Facing History and Ourselves
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The Science of Race
Holocaust and Human Behavior
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The Science of Race
Holocaust and Human Behavior
Chapter 2
Race in US History
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Holocaust and Human Behavior
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Spanish Translations from Holocaust and Human Behavior
The Individual and Society
We and They
World War: Choices and Consequences
The Weimar Republic: The Fragility of Democracy
The National Socialist Revolution
Conformity and Consent in the National Community
Open Aggression and World Responses
A War for Race and Space
The Holocaust
Judgment and Justice
Legacy and Memory
Choosing to Participate
Introduction
What Do We Do with a Difference? Universe of Obligation
Understanding Strangers
First Encounters in the Americas
We and They in Colonial America
Inventing Black and White
Who Is Human? The Science of Race
We the People in the United States
Religion, Loyalty, and Belonging
Breeding Society’s "Fittest"
Creating the German Nation
Anti-Judaism before the Enlightenment
From Religious Prejudice to Antisemitism
"Expansion Was Everything"
Imperialism, Conquest, and Mass Murder
Analysis & Reflection
Individual and Society
We and They
Case Study
Judgment, Memory & Legacy
Choosing to Participate
Scope and Sequence
T h e S c o p e and S e q u e n c e Individual & Soci et y W e & Th e y Case Study Cho o sing t o P artici p a t e Judgme n t, Memory & L e g a cy
In the 1700s and early 1800s, scientists in Europe and the Americas studied “race science”—the idea that humankind is divided into separate and unequal races. They tried to explain the contradiction between the belief in human equality expressed during the American and French Revolutions and the emergence of slavery in the United States and several European countries (see reading, Who Is Human? ). Prominent scientists from many countries built upon each other’s conclusions. They included the following: Carolus Linnaeus, an eighteenth-century Swedish naturalist, was among the first scientists to sort and categorize human beings. He regarded humanity as a species within the animal kingdom and divided the species into four varieties: