SOC253H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Kinsey Reports, Protestantism, Nuclear Family

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1 Dec 2016
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Brief social history of the model minority stereotype in the u. s. Liberalization of immigration policy: historical context: nazi germany has a role in how we define what is morally right/wrong. U. s: white supremacy was a morally right thing to want rising immigrant sentiment (1830s,1840s), rising roman catholic, until 1875: laissez-faire anybody could come and go, in the face of immigration created an anti-immigrant sentiment. Added the chinese to a list of (cid:498)mental defectives(cid:499) so that they: anti-immigrant, civil war: immigration slowed, 1875: restrictions, the immigration act of 1882 became a particular national origin that was barred from the. Language tests: slowed down immigration of non-english speaking eastern europeans. 1940-50s, intentional whitening, quotas being places on white. 1960s, kennedy and johnson shifted from focus on national origins to family unification. Asian americans: 1960s, benefitted from opening up of us immigration, path model for assimilation into middle class whiteness.

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