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Sernau - when have you felt at home

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when people become american

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Assimilation

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Robert Park - when group differences are replaced with individual differences

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white people groups that hadn’t assimilated
missing link
swarthy creatures
socially retarding
minorities

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  • irish
    -italian
    -polish
    -identified differently
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racialization

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the process whereby race impacts life chances

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Surplus products

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selling the surplus products mostly to non-white countries justified with racial rhetoric

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Shufeldt Treaty of 1882

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1882

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anti-Chinese act/Chinese exclusion act - specified to not be able to cross the US border

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Racialization

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was used to justify taking one’s land and labor

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Bacon’s Rebellion (1675-1676)

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shows how race impacts life chances; changed the way people view race; was more based on class before
Governor was William Berkely

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non real conflict (coser)

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how racialized capitalism created non real conflicts

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Racialized society allows for

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social control

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colonization

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when you have a physical presence

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imperialism

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when you have a financial pressure and make threats

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internal colonization

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when oppressed within your own confines

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external colonization

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when ? from a different location

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internal colonization is an extension of

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manifest destiny

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manifest destiny

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J O’sullivan 1839 - when the US has a divine right to conquer North America and introduce democracy

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Four Points of Internal Colonization

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1) control over a group’s governance
2) restriction of the freedom of movement
3) division of labor via exploitation (dual/split labor markets)
4) ideology to perpetuate a group’s inferiority (Berger’s dialectic of self hatred - colonized mentality Fil, DB (?)- Blacks)

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Modes of Incorporation for Native Americans

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  • not us citizens until 1924
  • genocide
  • assimilation
  • emphasized assimilation due to wanted smth from them (land)
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genocide (1944)

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destruction of people, children being taken, culture lost

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assimilation

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wanted them to be assimilated and absorbed (marriages, etc)

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Natives vs Blacks

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wanted land so emphasized similarities
wanted their labor so emphasized differences

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Dawes Act of 1887

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in order for Natives to become citizens, they had to own their own private property (division of tribal lands)

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Modes of Incorporation for African Americans

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  • citizens in 1868
  • WJ Wilson and the class, race rhetoric
    1) plantation economy
    2) industrial expansion
    3) post industrial
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Class race rhetoric of WJ Wilson
class matters more than race now, but race mattered more before
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Med HH Wealth for Blacks/Hispanics
much lower than whites were targeted w subprime mortgages did not accumulate as much wealth from 2000-2011
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Whites vs Non Whites? (no backside)
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1. Assimilation
white = straight line assimilation and pressure cooking assimilation non-whites = segmented assimilation
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straight line assimilation
given enough time the person belonging to a group will be looked at as an individual
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pressure cooking assimilation
forced to assimilate even if one does not want to (Woodrow Wilson claiming no more hyphenated American to europeans)
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1921/24 National Origin Quota Act
21 - used 1910 census and used 3% to mark how many could immigrate in later years If 1,000 people immigrated before, 30 could now 24 - used 1890 census and took 2% of that these freezed out certain ethnicities (Asians) and added others (Europeans)
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Single melting pot (1905)
when white people/protestants become the combined "white" culture
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Robert Park Assimilation
a cycle of people assimilating into society, but not all people fit into this cycle
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warner and srole's successive generational mobility
each generation does better than the last mostly for white people
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Herberg's triple melting pot 1956
needed to be white and protestant, catholic, or jew to assimilate
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Gordons structural assimilation gordons cultural assimilation marital assimilation
structural - for white people cultural - for everyone (white washed) the acceptance of marrying people outside their race (mostly natives)
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2. Ethnic Switching
mostly NAs but can also include blacks and other persons
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NA population
exploded in 1950s/60s so that they could get more benefits (ethnically switched)
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Black vs African?
The ethiopian dude who remained ethipian and not black until "African American" benefitted him
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3. Symbolic Ethnicity
Herbert Gans where the ethnicity used to come at a price but no longer does ("Jew" used to be costly but is now more "symbolic"
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Non White Modes of Incorporation (free card)
areas of society where race/ethnicity impacts life chances for white ppl vs POC
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"Deaths of Despair" 2021
When white men were noticed to be poor so they die more likely of alcoholism, OD, or suicide Happens to non-white men also, but they aren't noticed, just assumed to be normal
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1) Selective Acculturation or-
becoming acclimated to the norms of the majority (selective - only so much whiteness one is willing to adopt)
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Segmented assimilation
(not straight line assimilation) Different because the line is not all good, there are bad points to assimilating as a non white
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subtractive acculturation
when one acculturates too much to whiteness when not white, their life chances decline
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2. Middleman Minority Thesis
global contexts of products being made/ a minority group that is underserved and a minority group that doesnt live in the area but sells products to the underserved area
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3) Ethnic Enclaves
the ethnic group is selling and buying amongst themselves and live in the same space capital circulation is key
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ghetto
an ethnic enclave without capital
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reactive ethnicity
when people accentuate ethnic elements when pushed too far
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life chances
when objective and subjective metrics are impacted by race/ethnicity
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why some immigrant groups can experience upward mobility while others struggle?
timing (of migration) cultural differences (jews vs italians) structural argument based on human capital cultural capital
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AVOID cultural abstractions as explanations
structure trumps culture
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1965 Immigration Reform
abolished national origins quota act more based on labor and family reunification (human capital) intended for social justice for southern and eastern europeans
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Outliers Malcolm Gladwell
structure - contexts of departure and reception Agency - 10,000 hours Contingency - randomness (unplanned policy shifts)
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Joe Flomm (Outliers)
Jewish Lawyer who did well financially The Depression caused high school teachers to be professor level and class sizes to be smaller Beginning of Ks Curve and Warner and Sroles Successive Generational Mobility Jews did more mergers and aquisition

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