ASIA AM 20 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Asian Americans, Final Exam (Film), White People

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Cultural hegemony--when complete domination of ruling class"s worldview becomes the accepted cultural norm. Others view it as natural and bene cial for everyone rather than questioning it as an arti cial social construct. Race--socially constructed biological basisaffected by genetics and ancestry, generalization based on skin color. For asians, ethnicity and identity frames life experiences (ex: irish on st. Patrick"s day, easy to take on and take off) Ethnic group: people who see themselves and biologically and historically connected to each other. Carolus linnaeus--kingdom phylum stuff: wanted to add race as another category after species. Arthur de gobinau ranked the races--whites, asians, indians, blacks. De nition of a species: many characteristics in common and ranking below a genus, organisms that reproduce sexually and belong to same species interbreed and produce fertile offspring. A lot of petty laws aimed against chinese. 1790 naturalization act: free white people can naturalize. 1848 treaty of guadalupe hidalgo: mexicans are white.

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