Key Underlined and bolded the definition Italicized examples of facts the professor stated Race and Ethnicity Key Terms Test 1 3 Ethnicity Ethnic Group the assumption of differences based on real or imagined physical characteristics taking the assumptions of those physical characteristics and believing you are 1 Race 2 Racism inferior or superior of those individuals other based on something they have in common Religion culture skin color place of origin etc live Ex South Floridians hatred of Cubans where you were born hatred towards someone because of their ethnicity Can depend on where you when a group of people decide they are comfortable with each 5 Nationality 4 Nativism what citizenship you are 6 Today s definition of nationality 7 The other the government puts everyone in a hierarchy anyone who is not at the top the top consisting of white Anglo American Protestants WASPs is referred to as the others when the people at the top place people in categories based on how alike they are African Americans are on the bottom because they are complete opposite of WASPS 8 Racial and ethnic hierarchies 9 Three movements waves of immigration a Formative wave 1607 1830 b First wave 1830 1880 c Second wave 1880 1920 the English and the Africans Referred to as the formative wave because the English believed that they formed America revolution therefore many unskilled workers immigrants were required Central and eastern Europeans Russians southern Italians Greeks and the Japanese traveled in mass numbers to America The Irish Germans and Chinese are asked to come over 1880 s were considered the start to the industrial i Because of the mass amount of people entering the US the first immigration restriction law was passed in 1921 10 Assimilation 12 Un assimilate able accepting that you are in a new country so you must adapt to the required someone who cannot assimilate because of characteristics that when an immigrant comes into the US and has to forget everything they previously were adapted to culture their language their religion etc and adapt US s way of living 11 Acculturation things language but still practicing your country s beliefs and traditions cannot be changed such as skin color American Protestants complete assimilation 14 Cultural pluralism accept new cultures over to America tend to be Germanic white Anglo Saxons Christians who are not White Anglo Saxon Protestants what 20th century calls people who moved the government s requirement for all people to become white Anglo what America does today accepting all cultures and being happy to 15 Xenophobia 16 WASP 13 Anglo conformity fear of foreigners 17 Queen Elizabeth Catholic not homogenous Anglos Saxons Gaelic tribes Picts Britons Normans Romans and Vikings became the whites white pure and god like money to colonize the typical way country funds the trip to new area and in turn gets the land and goods brought back said that all of the citizens of England could colonize if they could afford it in charge of England at the time of colonization doesn t have the all of the property or land goes to the first born son 18 Primogeniture a Second Third Sons have limited opportunities can either wait for the first son to die or go into the army when England started colonizing they did that borrowed money from first son and travelled to the new world 19 Jamestown 1607 death because they didn t know how to do anything first colony second third sons landed in Chesapeake Bay starved to a Indentured Servants Queen Elizabeth didn t want a failure at Jamestown so she sent food and the urban poor to help the gentlemen second third sons for the price of passage to the new world the person will work for their buyer for 5 7 years after this time they were free and could colonize their own land and farm second colony created by the Pilgrims separatists and Puritans wanted to separate from the Church of England go to the New World for freedom of religion establish small towns because have middle class skills like farming doctors etc 20 New England 1620 a Pilgrims a person who wants to separate from the church of England didn t believe in big adornments only pay attention to the preacher willing to work with the church of England to reform it b Puritans 21 Formative Migration WASP Dominance Influence in five major areas a Language b Religion c Education English language only laws West Virginia is the only state with this Protestant separation of church and state there is no real separation Public schools use education to assimilate children parochial law schools are schools made for by immigrants Constitution plagiarized WASPs control political and legal organizations 99 of wealth belonged to 1 1 is mostly WASPs English Common Law is the same thing as our d Political and legal institutions e Economic Institutions 22 English Common Law WASPs plagiarized English Common Law to come up with the 23 Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 collection of four laws passed to limit immigration a Naturalization Act must wait five to fourteen years before you can become a Constitution significantly citizen majority is the people in power not the numerical majority 24 Majority and Minority 25 West African Kingdoms 26 West African Urban Areas Cities 27 Trans Saharan Trade out of slavery regardless of skin color farming was big in Africa 29 Types of African Slaves a Prisoners of War 28 West African Agricultural Areas slave trade in Africa class based slavery system can fall in and normal people owned could own land and farm instead of killing them sell them in the Trans Saharan Trade b Criminals African society didn t believe in prisoners instead they would be c Debtors if you owe someone money and don t have it you work for them as a slaves for crimes slave to pay it off 32 Right to Slave 30 Class vs Racial slavery 31 Pan Africanism Africa actually all hated each other European countries the right to slave world Europeans also stayed here 33 Slave Fort the belief that the people of Africa all loved each other people of Kings and Queens of some West African countries would give some where the slaves were kept until the boats came to take them to the new 34 Krumen Africans who would help Europeans kidnap people for a lot of money 35 Pre Conceived Stereotypes about Africans a Blackness WASPs assumed that they were uncivilized wild barbaric and because the Africans were black they were evil associated with the grim reaper and the devil b Savagery primitive myth was that they
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