SOC263H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Alteratie, Operation Wetback, United States Border Patrol
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Immigrants feel welcomed in the us when they become white. Think of whiteness as a matter of privilege and not biology: 1st immigrants to us = british/irish/german, white used to distinguish btw people w/ euro ancestry and those of african ancestry in early marriage laws. In time, poor euro-born servants citizens: however, poor african-born servants (cid:862)(cid:271)la(cid:272)k(cid:863) 200 yrs of intergenerational slavery. New groups further stretched boundaries of racial divisions chinese immigrants in segregated. If the(cid:455) (cid:449)ere to i(cid:374)ter(cid:373)arr(cid:455), it (cid:449)ould ha(cid:448)e to (cid:271)e (cid:449)ith (cid:271)la(cid:272)ks, agai(cid:374) (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g the(cid:373) (cid:862)colored(cid:863) Race = social construction, not a biological fact. Some racial categories bring together enormously diverse groups, i. e. asian american, south indians, east. Multiracial individuals called mulatto in colonial times problem for clear black/white segregation systems: u = (cid:862)o(cid:374)e drop rule(cid:863) a(cid:374)(cid:455) a(cid:373)ou(cid:374)t of afri(cid:272)a(cid:374) heritage (cid:373)ade o(cid:374)e (cid:862)(cid:271)la(cid:272)k(cid:863, race matters bc of importance people give to it.
