DOC 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Javier Mariscal, Benjamin Banneker, Racial Hygiene
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Doc 1 // fall 2012 // prof. mariscal. Economic problems: increase of population from 3 to 4 million, famine, rise of the wool industry. America was bursting with resources and they wanted to migrate to cultivate land. First settlement in the new world was in virginia. Play invites us to see the english expansion not only as imperialism but as a creation of an english- american society based on race. First performed after the invasion of ireland but before the colonization of new. England, after john smith"s arrival in virginia, before the beginning of tobacco economy and after the first contacts with native americans. Caliban resembled the irish to many english. The english established a two-tiered social structure: every irishman cannot wear. Irish were viewed as a people as a people living outside of civilization. English apparel or weapon upon death, and no irishman born irish shall purchase land, bear office . British laws prohibited marriage between english and irish.
