ANP 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Hypodescent, White Privilege, Miscegenation
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Indentured and slave labor(easier if seen as diff, lesser) Jim crow(white only, courtesy titles, right of way) Rule of hypo descent(1 drop of black in lineage, you"re black; 1 drop = ?) Legal (role of the state): susie g. phipp"s 1982. No legal concept, but still social concept. Race and the us census: an evolving human construction. 1924 - national origin act - america should be kept americanbiological laws show that. Nordics deteriorate when mixed w/ other races, coolidge. Irish, italians, greeks and eastern european jewish immigration. Open schools and other resources to vets and non white moved into areas with whites. Racism is a complex system of power that draws on the cltrally constructed categories of race to rank people as superior and inferior, and to differentially allocate access to power, privilege, resources and opportunities . Racism w/out racists : historically produced inequalities resulting from legal racism/meritocracy.
