ES 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bhagat Singh Thind, New Zealand National Football Team, George Lipsitz

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Ethnic Studies
• Course: ES 101
• Professor: Fujiwara

Document Summary

Indigenous solidarity day (columbus day) fitting because we are talking so much about property ownership & real estate. The house we live in no subspecies in human beings characteristics have no meaning unless given social power immigrants worked worst & dangerous jobs along w/ blacks & asians by 1910, 50% of miners were immigrants. What we perceive as race = first thing we know about each other. Between 1880 & 1920, most immigrants were from eastern & southern europe. America = the melting pot (from broadway musical) 1922, japanese man tried to become an american citizen court denies citizenship (he raised kids as american, wore western clothes, spoke english) Many land acts prohibited immigrants from owning land. Verdict of us v. thind (denied citizenship) 3rd of 4th generation americans still thought to be foreigners unions kept blacks & mexicans from getting good jobs (if at all) 1930"s, government created national housing act to let families have a home.