SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Institutional Racism, Room Experience, Intersectionality
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Children of mixed heritage defined as slaves by law. If mother was white, you"re not a slave virginia slave code 1662. Conquering mexico and the invention of the mexican american. Latin am were fighting for independence from spain and freedom from bondage. There were afraid that supporting the anti slavery rebellion would spark something in the us and they were planning on expanding slavery to the west. Spain gave florida to the us in exchange for withholding support from latin. Any further european conquest of latin am considered acts of aggression against us; promotion of american conquest of that land -> manifest destiny. Q: why didn"t the us claim all of mexico. Because if it had, the us would have ceased to be a majority white nation. Treaty of guadalupe hidalgo promised citizenship to mexican in ceded territories. Mexicans constructed in uw law an inferior race.
