SOC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Topeka, Kansas, Unfree Labour, Bourgeoisie
25 Oct 2016
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Like gender, race and ethnicity are key anchors for people"s social and self-identities. Ethnicity: cultural values and norms that distinguish the member of a given group. When groups are relatively disadvantaged economically and socially, we call them a minority group. One race is usually at the top of the economy. Prejudice: a way of thought that are resistant to change. The us is about 65% white as of today (2016) Quite a bit of international migration within north america. Most forced to immigrate through slavery, a brutal system of unfree labor. Many slaves actively or passively resisted slavery. Period of reconstruction defeated in the south by the 1870s, and jim crow segregation measures firmly in place by the end of the 20th century, along with a regime of racial terror. Plessy (separate but equal) was overturned with brown v. board of education of. Widespread protest and civil disobedience lead by men and women like martin luther.
