HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Blast Furnace, Cultural Pluralism, Wage Labour
14 Mar 2016
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In-between peoples: race, naionality and the new immigrant working class. Situaion of millions of eastern and southern european immigrants arriving at end of 19th. C to early 1920s: race an important part to consciousness of immigrants, development of racial awareness and aitudes, radicalized worldview in new immigrant workers, concern of view of immigrant workers in racial terms by others. Concern of how europeans/irish/polish became white : how did immigrant workers wind up in-between. Racial idenity clearly gendered and began to understand gendered quality of racial language, convenions, and idenity. Taboo against interracial sex and marriage: race mixing occurred in spite of this. Inconsistency of race as important evidence of the in-between railway status of immigrants. For immigrant workers, the process of becoming white/american was intertwined. Diferences between radicalized status of african americans and racial in-between-ness of immigrants meant that the later eventually became ethnic and that they trajectory was predictable.
