2010-2011 Academic Catalog 
    
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2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HGS 234 - Racial Thought and Body Politics in Modern Europe (1500-2000)

Type of Course: Seminar
The category of “race” has been used since about 1500–when Europe’s Renaissance met with the exploration of “other” human beings in different continents–to naturalize inequality among groups of people based on certain ideas of their bodies. The seminar focuses on the scientific foundation of modern racism in the Enlightenment, the origins of the cult of health and beauty at about 1900, and the globalization of western body ideals until now.

Cross Listed: HGS334, HIST 234 , RER234

Instructor: Mr. Kuehne

When Offered: Offered periodically

Faculty: Thomas Kuehne, Ph.D. - Professor of History; Strassler Family Chair in the Study of Holocaust History