SOCI 200gm Study Guide - Final Guide: Anti-Irish Sentiment, Racial Hierarchy, Travelport
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Enlightment era and the construction of race; classifying people by observation, based on phenotype. Started to classify people in a type of racial hierarchy where the white euros were at the top and the rest were on the bottom; all happened at the time of colonization. Others were cognitively, culturally, morally unfit to govern selves; couldn"t have capability to reason. Roediger argues that if we ignore white ethnicity and whiteness as a social construction, it redoubles its hegemony or dominance by naturalizing it. Riot- go after bankers and attacking people; consciousness was to vent frustration but it was rerouted towards black community. At some point, irish were considered black and made attempts to reaffirm their whiteness by attacking blacks bc you need an other. discrimination and the. During time period, a lot of anti-immigration sentiment and catholics looked at as subservient; as evidence of the. But the sheer numbers of the irish attracted political attention.
