GE CLST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bracero Program, Operation Wetback, Mexican Revolution

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Process by which we group based on physical characteristics. Process that we make sense of the world. We sort because it"s who we are. Categorizing leads to some as members of ingroup and other as members or out-group. What defines group is arbitrary (we make these lines) Can be defined on nationality, citizenship, race, gender. Process by which we attach social meaning to racial categories. Some positive and some negative create privilege or disadvantage. Exploitation: taking advantage of a group for one"s own benefits (slavery) Immigrants arrive with varying skills and characteristics. Groups vary in which they fit in us racial order. Over time, they end up in different location in us racial order. Racial categorization: grouping :: racialization : placing on a hierarchy. Easy to arrange for travel and enter us. Poverty, clannish, illiterate, high disease rates, criminals. 20th cent for europeans (national origins act 1924) Italians able to reach parity with other europeans.

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