GE CLST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cable Act, Pass Laws, Equal Protection Clause
15 Dec 2015
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Notions of race changes, and have changed, over time. Native (red), caucasians (white), ethiopian (black), mongolian. Expansion of racial categories (yellow), mexican (brown) 1920s cultural anthropologists and. eugenicists (culturalists vs racialists) No culture is impacted by race (culturalism) Eugenists called for white supremacy and anti-miscegenation. Nations of race that have been manifested in law. American indian law and blood quantum requirement. Asian immigrants and their children have been affected by municipal, state, and national law. 1854 foreign miners tax (mexican and chinese miners) 1854 george hall case (native, black, mongolian are inferior) Prohibits people to walk on sidewalks with poles on their back to target the chinese peddlers and delivery men. 14th amendment guarantees to equal protection of the laws (1868) 1866: civil rights bill passed to protect newly freed african americans in the south, also removed chinese civil disabilities. Houses must provide 500 cubic air per inhabitant. 1876 san fan queue cutting ordinance (propose in 1873, signed in 1876)
