HIST 151 1st Edition Lecture 11Outline of Last Lecture I. Race in America (Civil War to WWI)Outline of Current Lecture I. Beyond Black and WhiteII. NortheastIII. Chinese or Mexican: ArizonaIV. Black, White, Brown: TexasCurrent LectureI. Beyond Black and Whitea. Emancipation threw race questions up for grabsb. Immigrationi. Racial categories, rights, citizenship, votingii. 1825-1865: 5 million immigrants come to US  UK, Germans, Irishiii. 1865-1895: 40 million immigrants  SE Europeans, Mexican, Asianiv. More numerous, more distinct/diverse1. Eat strange foods, worship strange gods, strange languages, habits, play new urban sports, make themselves publicly visiblea. Strange and threateningb. Labor relationsi. 1870s –WWI, labor strugglesii. Taking wage labor jobs1. Joined unionsII. Northeasta. Anglo-Saxonismi. White Europeans racially distinct, “English speaking race”ii. Race wasn’t removed from ethnicityiii. Made sense to a lot of peopleiv. Native, Protestant whiteb. Anti-Semitismi. Joseph Seligman (1877)1. NY 2. Wanted to make reservation at Grand Union Hotela. They didn’t let himThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.b. Very unusuali. Reminiscent of medieval prejudiceii. White frostiii. Became commonplaceiv. Unable to register at up-scale, up-state resortsc. South and North both have segregationi. South it was a part of the lawii. North it was a social practice, customd. Social Darwinismi. Belonging to English-speaking raceii. Different social groups had innate traits that held them favorable or unfavorableiii. Social groups – religioniv. Groups compete, those with most favorable traits would winv. Inequality, blamed it on nature, forfeit responsibilityvi. Made race/cultural mixture terrifying to Americans1. Justifies social interactionse. America has tension between individualism and equalityi. Came into conflict ii. Lincoln’s wishiii. Create cat differencesiv. Explanationv. Russia intellectuals1. Worked together2. Russian intellectualsa. Nature creates evermore fit communities3. Communalvi. Take best traitsvii. Interpretation changedIII. Chinese or Mexican: Arizonaa. Immigration geared towards encouragingi. Bans on certain types of people, restrict immigration based on raceb. Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)i. Repealed in 1943c. Chinese would immigrate to Canada or Mexico, then immigrate to US from thered. Border Patrol Dilemmai. Difficult to discern Chineseii. Mexico NW, under control of unassimilated1. The way to gun control2. Welcomed immigrationiii. Chinese and Mexicans had own plansiv. Mexico lured the immigrants1. Became Mexican Citizense. Lee Sing (1861)i. Sonora Sonora  immigrated toii. Went into business iii. Dry-goods store – beef, jerky, hardtackiv. 1889 married Mexican womanv. International businessmanvi. Sometimes had problems crossing bordervii. 1897 – brother murdered, go to Tucson to settle estate1. Would do laundry for free2. Ironing his own clothing3. Woman sees him, thinks he is evading capture4. Gets thrown into jailviii. Class trumps race1. Could demonstrate2. Rooted in raceIV. Black, White, and Brown: Texasa. Rural social ladderi. Mexican racial status?ii. Had to be