Choose any three of the readings assigned during the previous five weeks and analyze them in response to the following prompt:
What was the most important development in the history of religion, race, and science in the 1800s? The “synthesis” part of this assignment means you bring these three readings into conversation with each other to answer the prompt.
How do these readings individually address the question?
How do they agree or disagree with each other, and how do you agree or disagree with them?
How do they inform your ultimate answer to the prompt?
You may, and perhaps should, bring in material from the lectures as part of your analysis. For this assignment, you will be graded not on the ultimate answer you provide but on how well you critically engage with the sources you select.
sources to choose from:
Jennifer Graber, “Closed Lands: 1868 to 1872,”
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ch. 3 in The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Tisa Wenger, introduction, We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom
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(UNC Press, 2009).
Nell Irvin Painter, chs. 18-20
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and 23-24
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, The History of White People (W.W. Norton, 2010).
Eric Goldstein, “What Are We? Jewishness Between Race and Religion,”
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ch. 4 in The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity (Princeton University Press, 2008).
James P. Rusling, “Interview with William McKinley,”
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The Christian Advocate (January 22, 1903), 137.
W.E.B. Du Bois, “A Litany of Atlanta” (1906)Links to an external site.
Bederman, Gail. “Chapter 1: Remaking Manhood through Race and Civilization.” Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, edited by Catherine R Stimpson, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1996, pp. 1–44. Women in Culture and Society.
Chapter 1: Remaking Manhood Through Race and “Civilization” (PDF)
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Johnson, Sylvester A. “Chapter 1: The People (-Ing) of God.” The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity: Race, Heathens, and the People of God, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2004, pp. 1–26. Chapter 1: The People(-ing) of God (PDF) Actions
Browne, Janet. “Asa Gray and Charles Darwin: Corresponding Naturalists.” Harvard Papers in Botony, vol. 15, no. 2, 2010, pp. 209–220.
“Asa Gray and Charles Darwin: Corresponding Naturalists”
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Livingstone, David N. “Reflections on a Revolution.” Darwin’s Forgotten Defenders, Regent College Publishing, Vancouver, B.C., 1997, pp. 28–56.
“Reflections on a Revolution”
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Anderson, Eric D. “Black Responses to Darwinism, 1859-1915.” Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender, edited by Ronald L. Numbers and John Stenhouse, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2001, pp. 247–266.
“Black Responses to Darwinism”
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Moran, Jeffrey P. “Reading race into the Scopes trial: African American elites, science, and fundamentalism.” Journal of American History, vol. 90, no. 3, 2003, pp. 891–911, https://doi.org/10.2307/3660880.
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James H Hammond. “Letters on Slavery” (1852) and Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852) Critical Issues in American Religious History, Richard Matheson ed., Baylor University Press, Waco, TX, 2006, pp. 282–285.
“Letters on Slavery”/”What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (PDF)
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Horsman, Reginald. “Science and Inequality” Race and Manifest Destiny : The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism, Harvard University Press, 1981. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/fsu/detail.action?docID=3300244Links to an external site.. Created from fsu on 2023-08-17 03:19:42.Copyright © 1981. Harvard University Press. All rights reserved.
“Science and Inequality” (PDF)
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Hampton, Monte. “Slavery, Science, and Southern Presbyterians Before the Civil War”. BioLogos, 2015.
“Slavery Science, and Southern Presbyterians Before the Civil War” (Online)Links to an external site.
“Slavery, Science, and Southern Presbyterians Before the Civil War” (PDF)
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Noll, Mark A. “The Crisis Over the Bible.” The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 2006, pp. 31–50.
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