Annotations of “Plessy V. Ferguson” (pg. 1-20):
- Edited by Brook Thomas
- “Samuel E. Courtney” was an African American teacher in Alabama in 1885.
- “Coon” is a term used to refer to a black person.
- During this time in age, white people didn’t like diversity or anything different from themselves.
- White men could be very aggressive with their words, body language, and being physical. Such as when someone said “Before we’ll let you ride any further in that car we’ll take you out there in the field and fill you with bullets”.
- The men threaten and name call.
- “Jim Crow” car is a car reserved for colored people.
- The Alabama law that made it illegal for African Americans to sit in cars with whites was one of many laws passed by southern states beginning in the 1880’s that mandated racial segregation.
- “People learned their place in segregated society through the pervasive juxtaposition of clearly superior facilities marked “Whites Only” with inferior ones designated “Colored” (pg. 3).
- In 1866 a Civil Rights Act was passed, effectively voiding practices mandated by black cods by making African American full United States citizens and guaranteeing certain rights of citizenship.
- The first time the court ruled on the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments was in 1873 in the Slaughter-House Cases, which involved the rights of white butchers, not African Americans.
Supreme Court Of The United States. (1895) U.S. Reports: Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537.
Annotations of The Mismeasure of Man (51-62):
- Author is Stephen Jay Gould
- The Mismeasure of Man is not fundamentally about the general moral turpitude of fallacious biological arguments in social settings (as my original and broader title from Darwin would have implied).
- This book seeks to demonstrate both the scientific weaknesses and political contexts of determinist arguments. Even so, I do not intend to contrast evil determinists who stray from the path of scientific objectivity with enlightened antideterminists who approach data with an open mind and therefore see truth.
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