Lecture 1 Introduction Lecture Race Nationality and Ethnicity The History of Immigration The Use of Film Definition of Race assumption of differences based on real or imaginative characteristics Racism taking physical characteristics and claiming that someone is superior or inferior to you Definition of Ethnic Group or Ethnicity people that share the same language ancestors or culture Nativism the idea that someone is inferior or superior to you based on their ethnicity Definition of Nationality the place of your birth Racial and Ethnic Hierarchies ordering people based on how much they are similar to a specific group Other anyone other than you the more someone looks like you the more you like them Waves of Immigration immigrants coming in very large numbers Formative the colonization of America First large group of immigration from people all over the world Second 3rd group of people mostly European Third includes today Hispanics Indians and Africans Assimilation give up your old culture you left behind and conform to the culture immigrated to Anglo Conformity to mutilate yourself into becoming English Xenophobia the fear of immigrants Acculturation not losing everything of your culture when immigrating Cultural Pluralism the idea that America is different because we have so many cultures Un Assimilate able people that cannot physically assimilate blacks chinese stc Lecture 2 Anglo Saxon Protestants or English WASP White Anglo Saxon Protestant the people that first come to America White opposites of blacks they are WASPs Virginia Model known as gentlemen tradesmen serving men and libertines Virginia Company founded the Virginia model Second Third Sons they get nothing the idea that everything goes to the eldest son this is upper class Indentured Servants people that have no money to come to US so turn their lives to work Labor Migrant convicts kindnapped individuals Slave people forced against their will to work for a lifetime Massachusetts Model made of pilgrims puritans came to America for religious reasons Massachusetts Bay Company founded the Massachusetts model Pilgrims Puritans farmers merchants servants came on mayflower for religious reasons Quakers protestant religion that broke away from England peaceful people Pennsylvania Model people came here because they were told about religious freedom William Penn established Pennsylvania Aliens people that were poor or incompetent could not move to Pennsylvania Benjamin Franklin Pluralism all cultures are created equal Article I Section 8 of Constitution says that there is a uniform rule of naturalization Naturalization Acts people born in the US are citizens Alien Act president has the right to deport any alien not around anymore Enemy Aliens Act if you are an enemy the government can hold you then deport you still today Sedition Act you cannot day bad things about our country or falsify the constitution still today Majority and Minority the majority is the main group of people the minorities is the lesser groups Lecture 3 AFRICANS European Discovery of Africa 15th and 16th centuries found by portugese while trying to trade with China West African Kingdoms the techinlogically advanced kingdoms founded by Portugese Trans Saharan Trade trade across Africa with west kingdoms Black opposite of white seen as evil should work for whites Animality the idea that Africans are seen as animals and beasts of burden African Slavery slaves in Africa were their own social class worked to pay off a debt Myth of Pan Africanism the myth that all Africans love eachother and never had a problem Slave Traders Africans that traded other Africans to the white people African Guides Atlantic Slave Trade Triangle Trade trade routes between the West Indies West Africa Europe Shackels restriants places on Africans hands feet and mouths for months Middle Passage the trip from Africans from Africa on a ship packed like traded goods Slave Auction Slaves auctioned off once they reach destination made better appearance by oils Price of Slaves prices depended on sex age skill and demand Seasoning the process of breaking down the African into a slave Seasoner the person who breaks the African into a slave teaches language Branding a symbol burned onto slaves skin indicating who the slave belongs to Slave Society place where the society is majority slaves everyone s money revolves around slaves Society with Slaves society where the majority is free Lecture 4 African African Americans in Slavery and Freedom Three Periods of Slavery formative wave revolutionary period antebellum period Age of Flexibility America was society with slaves slaves were more servants worked for time bought South Carolina Slave Code the rules for which slaves can and cannot do Chattel Slavery slaves are animals stereotypical slave they will never have rights Family Slavery slave that acts like a servant in a home eats with the family slave gets lonely Urban Slavery slavery around city corporation owns slave and pays for food and housing no women Hiring Out slaves with no particular skill people hire these slaves themselves Self Hire slaves with skill that are sold to others sold for skill and gives money to the owners Tobacco the main crop needed for Slaves in Virgina Task System plantation owner gives you a task and once youre done you have nothing to do Gang System slaves that are told to work in the fields from sun up to sun down An Act for the better Regulation of Negroes more slave codes added in the Pennsylvania model American Revolution the civil war between the north and south over slavey Manumission an individual owner who frees his own slave Captain Dave in Roots Running Away slaves that ran away in the civil war Fugitive Slave Clause anyone that sees a free slave has to turn the slave in Gradual Emancipation Laws laws that gradually outlawed slavery Internal Slave Trade bringing people from the upper portions of the south to the lower south Sold Down the River what slaves called the internal slaves Owner Absentee the actual owner of the plantation owns several plantations isn t around much Manager lives on the plantation most likely owner s son manages plantation Overseer face of the plantation for slaves tells the slaves what to do most hated person Drivers slaves chosen to have benefits has to tell on slaves House Slaves slaves that live inside the house with the manager no working in the heat assimilate Miscegenation sex between the different races Active Resistance
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