[HIST 3554] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (19 pages long)
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Once you start the quiz it is timed. From colony to racial republic: migration, personhood and citizenship. The truth is white therefore justice is white. Definition of white is grounded historically in processes. Because of columbus, native americans and asians were linked as similar people. The court had to define who has rights and what category each person belonged to. To accommodate new individuals, the court just fit them into existing categories: ex: chinese negros. Acquire good for sale on global market. Colonization requires new settlers to occupy the land. Principal of colonization is based on capitalist accumulation. Immigration is the driving demand behind labor and land: in order for this to happen, there needs to be a racial code. Different scholars have differing opinions on this. Some different thoughts: structural, anti-racism, philosophical, spiritual, moral, ways to redefine what it means to be human. In other word, the deep state divides people into different groups.
