SJ 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Feudalism, Economic System, Redlining
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Sj 101 intro to social justice lecture 2 slavery & racism in the us: slavery has existed throughout time & history, slavery was not always a racial institution. Social construct: an idea that is created and used as a way of labeling people and assigning power to certain groups in society. Ex: race, gender, etc: greed founded the construction of race. 4 distinct characteristics of slavery in america: slaves were determined as such by their race, enslaved for life, slave status was maternally inherited, slaves represented the major labor force in growing the early american economy through plantations. How it got started: 1641 massachusetts creates the first slave law, elite white men came up with the idea of race and convinced colonists to embrace it. merely a label imposed on people. In this context, to be white was to not be a slave. Those who had interracial interactions were (cid:498)carrot & stick(cid:499): incentivized for embracing (cid:498)whiteness(cid:499) as one"s identity.
