HIST 1100 Lecture 1: Ideology and Race in American History
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Ideology and race in american history - barbara j. Race is more than just a typical appearance. Race as a mechanism of devising power between different groups across class and race; separates black from white and poor from the rich. Race as a caricature of skin phenotypes. Black people normalized into one entire race that diminishes their different ethnic groups. Racism was built over time for the need to secure the labor or black people as a permanent institutions. Ideology created a physical barrier between groups of people in order to create a hierarchy. Racism is the ideology that constructs race as a system to hold one group in power. Origin of slavery in north america was the result of vacants rebellion, so black and whites could not unite. There was never the permanence of slavery in any other society other than america.
