ASIANAM 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Racialization, Sharecropping, Model Minority
27 Jun 2016
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What story do they tel about chinese and united states: how do the pictures broaden up the topic of race and nation. U. s. west economy: early days, 1848, gold discovered at sutter"s mill, 1849, yerba buena san francisco (chinese 1838, yerba buena renamed as san francisco, labor shortages in u. s. west, work categories more fluid by race and gender a. i. Laundry work associated with men (domestic work seen as woman jobs) a. iii. Social formation occurs because they are doing these domestic jobs: gendered and racialized pay, differential salaries a. i. Woolen mills: chinese 75% of workers, yet earned lowest rates a. ii. Who you were determined what you can do and what you can be payed. a. iii. Sharecropping: working on part of the land but most of profit would go to: seasonal labor owner, fruits, cotton, hops, and wheat, labor intensive, continued racial and economic segregation, difficult to protest conditions b. Important to look at the resistance that was enacted.
