ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: White Supremacy, Gilberto Freyre, Utopia
30 Sep 2020
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Odr remained valid through jim crow laws. Odr and jim crow law institutionally/ legally restrict african americans as a labor force. Benjamin franklin: in europe, spaniards, italians french, russians swedesthey are generally what we call a swarthy complexion . The saxons and the english were the body of white people on earth and they wanted their numbers to increase. Potato famine pushes irish people to the u. s. 1845-1849. Irish characterized as a separate race, as backwards and dangerous. Workers unify and protect their jobs from being taken by african americans. Institutions (catholic church, tammany hall 1789) facilitate irish social mobility. Irish people are no longer considered a separate race in the u. s. Racial mixing has always existed in the us (within and outside slavery) despite one drop rule ideology. Not just about color: if a child"s mother was a slave, then child was a slave. Despite illusion of race as an essence, race in the us can be mutable.
