| Essay:
Racism a Short History
Notes: 2)
You MUST use blackboards digital dropbox (details here)
to submit this homework THIS IS ASSIGNMENT 5special Due: Regardless of how you turn in the short answer questions, this essay is due by class time on 2/17 via blackboard digital drop box (details here) see above for the required naming conventions for your paper. George Fredrickson argues in the excerpt from his book Racism: A Short History that you read for last class that, "Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain is critical to the history of Western racism because its attitudes and practices served as a kind of segue between the religious intolerance of the Middle Ages and the naturalistic racism of the modern era." Fredrickson demonstrates that the antipathy towards Jews transformed from one based on their beliefs to one based on their inherent "Jewishness" that was thought to be passed on by blood. Accordingly, this later vision represents the first emergence -- if in prototypical form -- of modern racism among Europeans. In this paper of 400 - 600 words, answer the following question:
"How can the evidence contained in these two
laws (document 1, document
2) be interpreted to illustrate the transformation Frederickson
describes." Some helpful pointers about your essay: 1)
your essay will need to employ Fredrickson's definition of racism
and explain how the first document
does NOT represent racism according to Frederick's use of the term,
but that the second document DOES.
3) Your essay will have to use textual evidence from the documents (document 1, document 2) in the form direct quotations to support your various claims. See a sample paragraph using claim, evidence, and warrant if you need some guidance in how to structure your paragraphs in this fashion. Also see the two sample outlines below. 4) You will have to identify your claim/evidence/warrant structures. Write (cl) before your claims, (ev) before your evidence, and (wa) before your warrants. Remember, only paragraphs that present evidence will use claim/evidence/warrant structures. Others -- such as your introduction -- will not.
5)
Note that the essay does NOT ask you
to use the documents to map out the changing restrictions upon Jews
or the violence directed at them. Rather, you should take as your
central task explaining how and why the documents reveal the changing
nature of (and basis for) the antipathy
towards Jews -- and why this change occurred. 7) Your quotations from the documents should be no more than 10 words and preferably MUCH shorter -- if you are unsure how to omit unnecessary information from a quotation, see here. (very useful) 8)
Some smaller things to pay attention to: (a) the documents represent
two different time periods, (b) not everything in a document will
be relevant to your paper; stay focused on proving your thesis rather
than writing a summary of -- or a book report on -- the laws, (c)
the assignment assumes the laws reflect the thinking of the people
who wrote them.
Here
are two proposed ways you might organize your paper (although you
can organize your paper in any way that makes sense) OUTLINE I (for a paper organized around the documents, see below for a paper organized around themes) I. Introduction a: historical background (why look at Iberia at all when discussing racism? Spend no more than 3 sentences on this topic -- just enough to set up your reader to make sense of your argument) b: Fredrickson's argument and his definition of racism (keep any quotation in this paragraph to 3 words or less) c: your thesis (document 1 does not reflect racism for reasons X and Y; but document 2 does reflect racism for reasons W and Z) II. document 1 does not reflect racism for reasons X and Y a.
reason x evidence warrant claim evidence warrant
III. Changes
A and B in Spain lead to racism against Jews, as reflected in document
2
racism for reasons W and Z b. reason w claim evidence
b. reason Z claim warrant IV Conclusion OUTLINE II (for a paper organized around the themes; see above for a paper organized around the documents)
I. Introduction a: historical background (why look at Iberia at all when discussing racism? Spend no more than 3 sentences on this topic -- just enough to set up your reader to make sense of your argument) b: (Frederick's argument and his definition of racism; keep any quotation in this paragraph to 3 words or less) C:
your thesis (documents encapsulate the transformation
for reasons x, y, and z) II. Reason X claim evidence warrant
III. Reason Y claim evidence warrant
IV. Reason Z claim evidence warrant
V. Conclusion
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