SOCI 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Slavery, Miscegenation, Rikers Island
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Separate but equal : perfume for underlying condition of inequality. 1876 1965: jim crow as a legal system. Slavery ended in 1876 with the civil war and the 13th amendment: you could still be enslaved if you were a convict. You could be arrested for being homeless: poverty replaced slavery. Wage slaves: chattel slavery" = property slavery ends in 1876 but not-slavery slavery existed. First form of police in us was slave patrol: riker"s island is named after famous judge riker who used to send any black man back to the south whether or not he was an escaped slave. Jim crow officially ends with civil rights act. Blackface entertainment was very popular during jim crow. Major audience was white people: could pay for tickets, etc, blacks exist to entertain white people. Jim crow was popular character in blackface: where name for law comes from. Racial discrimination is legal: separate but equal .