Nationality Race and Ethnicity In the United States AMH2071 In Class Notes Race Assumption of differences based on real or imagined physical characteristics Links outer look to what their inner character is Stereotyping Cultural Construction historical Invention System of dividing population political undertones Power Money and Separation are answers to most answers in the class Racism assuming that somebody is inferior to you and also superior to you Ethnicity shared cultural value the group of people has the same beliefs tradition culture language and ancestry Ethnicity is not where you are from Nativism assuming someone is something based on his or her ethnicity Nationality is the place of your birth and that people do claim to be other nationality sometimes depending on their heritage Racial and Ethnic Hierarchies based on how look like act like and react to the dominant population You can move up and down the hierarchy depending on how that ethic act in life Creation of the other It is is the creation of finding and labeling someone else is different then you The History of Immigration 4 major waves of people coming in Formative wave 1607 1830 First Wave Second Wave 1830 1880 1880 1920 Third Wave 1965 present Most immigrants don t want to go to America they HAVE to go to America More freedoms jobs medical land in America and that is why people migrate here We are not the first place for immigrants to move to because we have usually mistreated our immigrants Assimilation give up your entire culture of where you came from to be like the country you are going to You assimilate for better job opportunities marry someone one already similar or a move into an area without any person at all that is similar to you Hurdles people experience trying to assimilate language miss home Anglo Conformity must change your self to be English WASP White Anglo Saxon Protestant Xenophobia fear of immigrants because they can take power Acculturation not giving up everything you came from when in own area and own environment you act to support their culture Cultural Pluralism so many different cultures in the same area EXP Miami Un Assimilate able people that try to assimilate and do everything they can to be like the country to join but they cant because wasp treat them differently because of their physical characteristics Formative English Colonization come in and set the rules and standards but they didn t find themselves to be immigrants 1607 1830 White Anglo Saxon Protestant WASP Wanted everyone to be like them but everyone was different already and different nationalities Not a homogenous group o Anglos Saxons Gaelic tribes Celts o Picts Britons Normans Romans Vikings Became white as a color tittle when they saw people of another color Definition of White The Immigration of the English o Three different models of immigration Virginia Model o Gentlemen Tradesmen Serving men Libertines John Smith Founding of Virginia Virginia Company Knights Gentlemen Merchants and other Adventurers Not the right group of people to start a colony Immigrants Ask people to come to their new colony Second Third Sons Indentured Servants Labor Migrant Slave comply to work for them Massachusetts Model Don t get the same Rights as the Above People Second Third Sons are upper class people who practice Primogeniture Primogeniture all money goes to the oldest son Indentured servants are people who have no money but come to America by promising the person who brought him over to work for him to pay him off for bringing him to the new colony Young men Colonies They are not forced to work for somebody when they come are individuals with no money but are forced to go to the Labor migrants People that are released by the Prison People that are kidnapped Kids Orphans Women As Breeders Slave you forever People forced against their will to come over and have to work for o Relation with Native Peoples Killed or pushed further west if they did not o We shall be as a city upon a hill the eyes of all people upon us John Winthrop Founding of Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants Pilgrims can practice their religion somewhere else freedom because the Christian church wouldn t let it happen Puritans purify the Christian religion Small farmers Educated Exclusionary Have to agree with everything they want to do Letter of recommendation needed Merchants Money Good People These People cant enter Poor Vicious and infirm Quakers believe all people are equal exact opposite of puritans and Excommunicate them from the church for disrupting the puritan and Expulsion Banishment deportation if you did not conform they would pilgrims Pilgrims deport you Violence out broke for people who acted out o Native people Slavery Relations If Natives wanted to convert they can alive amongst them but if not they were pushed away Slaves had no rights and were considered property Pennsylvania Model o William Penn allows people to come he is a Quaker Immigrants come because everyone is invited Quakers come because it is like a refuge Africans are first Racial Immigration Still part of formative wave FORCED IMMIGRATION European Discovery of Africa 15th Century o Looking for luxury goods to sell Gold Spices Diamonds Silk 15th century Portuguese traders o Route to the east o Trading with WEST African Kingdoms Up to date and as big and marvelous as European cities Agriculture cities filled with fields of veg but are still developed cities Developed cities Timbuktu o Trans Saharan Trade Connects West Africa to Egypt to china 16th Century changes o Discovery of New World Christopher Columbus discover great land that could be used for agriculture Agricultural workers needed Natives Peoples Europeans try to get natives to work but they refuse 80 of Caribbean Native people die Decide to enslave Africans o Enslavement of Africans Pre conceived Stereotypes about Africans Linked all area of Africa to be one type of African stereotype Africa is the Dark Continent o Savages o Live in huts o Run around naked o Violent o Look fun of what they look like Black means Dirty Death Evil Sinner Negative Called them Black Animality Beast Of Burden Treat them equal to that of an animal o No rights and are now just items to use for European Development o Built them to work Europeans thought they were designed by god for this reason Believed they were not biologically alike o Did Europeans Bring Slavery to West Africa African Slavery West Africa already had million of Slaves Their were
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