01:920:108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Scientific Racism, United States V. Wong Kim Ark
19 Dec 2016
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Defining who belongs through immigration and citizenship laws. Immigration history: prior to 1840s - english, scandinavian, and german immigration dominant, 1840-1850s - irish immigration dominant. Potato famine: 1861-1865 - civil war, less immigration, 1870s - chinese immigration to west coast grows. 1882 - chinese exclusion act: 1890-1920 - southern and eastern european immigration dominant, 1910s - japanese immigration to west coast grows, 1924 - national origins quota act (johnson-reed immigration act) Occupied lesser position in europe: how did irish achieve whiteness, discrimination against irish, scientific racism - irish more like africans than other whites. Propaganda public intellectuals responsible for keeping slavery also. Irish achievement of whiteness perpetuated irish sentiment: learned racial dynamics in u. s. quickly, subordinated county, religious, or national animosities - built solidarity based on color. Built alliances with former enemies: freedom equated with whiteness , irish squeezed blacks out of jobs that no one else wanted and redefined those jobs as white men"s work .
