GWS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Roots, Racialization, Involuntary Servitude
26 Feb 2018
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Skin color is still a concern because it is used to rank order people for practical things. Whiteness refers to a historical systemic structural race-based superiority (p. 30) Race theory helped to explain and justify the expansion and colonization by white people, their subjugation of non-white people in africa, asia, and the orient (p. 30) People who defended slavery and colonialism believed that these efforts were a blessing to africans. When looking at u. s. colonial history, it reveals the move from racial classification to racialization- as slave and black become synonymous. This move was due to two unique characteristics of the american colonial experience: The old south tried for years to draw a line to define who was white and who was black, in order to maintain a racial hierarchy. Slave owners were a small but extremely powerful minority; most white people in the old. Opposed to take a stand on abolition. Abolitionism was the first mass-based movement in this country.
