SOC263H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Sharecropping, Class Conflict, An American Dilemma
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First immigrants to the us were british races, irish, german, etc. white was first employed in the colonial us to distinguish between european ancestry and african ancestry in early marriage laws. Largest groups to migrate were = irish races. Said to be inferior: intellectually slow, given to drunkenness, easily manipulated by priests and politicians. Chinese immigrants in mississippi - work the fields but they opened small businesses and became middle-class = considered white. They could not marry the white only black or their own people = be considered coloured. Race is a social construction - trying to categorize human physical diversity. One drop rule - any amount of african heritage made one black (p129) a debt unpaid: internal colonialism. Web du bois: racial exploitation - debt unpaid and the color line would continue to haunt the 20th century. People of colour - groups that never became white. Blauner: third world peoples - poverty in the first world.
