LABRST 1C03 Lecture Notes - Indentured Servant, David Roediger

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1C03
• Professor: David Bush

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**key terms: structural racism, interpersonal racism, internalized racism, Slavery and indentured servitude initially were not racialized. Colonial projects necessitated the development of racial hierarchies (unique to capitalism) Multiple efforts to justify racial difference were rooted emerging sciences. Racial classifications by pseudoscience"s popularized and entrenched racist beliefs. The social construction of race within colonialism served to further justify colonial expansion. Whiteness is a social construction that is fluid. Initially all non-anglo saxons were not seen as white (irish, italian, Whiteness is not just an absence of racial oppression but an identity and practice of power in the context of capitalist wage relations. To ignore white ethnicity is to redouble its hegemony by naturalizing it . Racial hierarchies have manifested themselves in social, geographical, cultural and workplace segregation. Segregation policies also went hand-and-hand with policies of forcible assimilation (residential schools) In the united states and canada individuals and activist organizations consistently challenged this segregation.