Social Control and Race Myers and Massey how there was a higher demand for labor because there was labor shortage Name 3 ways social control used to empower white or control minority Black codes criminalizing black activity that was legal jay walking Forced labor camps Mayers and Massey public govt use of convicts o Construction of infrastructure Railroads and roads o Chain gangs Convict leasing blackmon private tobacco worked for people they had just escaped from English conquest white vs other 90 of natives died Social control born with or without you have control if you re white controlled if you are not Colonialism the 8 effects disease slavery domesticated animals Slavery o Indentured o Plantation o Chattel Boundary making o Taking Mexican land controlling those people granting citizenship later then taking it away treaty of Guadeloupe was increasing their power o Manifest destiny Americans had the right to take away land from people as long as it o Repatriation sent Mexicans back to mexico after WWI o Bracero program when and how we controlled the Mexicans brought Mexicans back to the US to help during WWII due to labor shortage they were documented but contracts were written in English so they didn t know what they were signing Spanish and British conquests British was the worst of the human history disease domesticated animals forced dislocation violence 90 of Native Americans died Define Waves of immigration Pre wave o British named white vs other Europeans and colonization Wave 1 Irish German desperation Jewish catholic Slavic Wave 2 Hiatus Wave 3 New current MENA Africa Asia Parks and Burgess Cycle Race relation cycle o Irish came from famine and poverty so they were easily controlled due to their After WWI and depression Restrictive quotas race quotas Hart Cellar Act abolished all these rules allowed for 3rd wave to occur o Competition o Conflict British contact with native Americans competing for land War domination whites dominated native Americans o Accommodation Learning to live together o Assimilation process of increasing likeness to the dominant group Cultural Psycho Adoption of one ethnic group of another ethnic traits Blending of values religions languages Structural increasing interaction between minority and dominant group Primary informal emotional ties close relations personal networks o Measured by residential seg rates of intermarriage Secondary formal large impersonal groups institutions o Measure by wealth income edu political participation Bio ultimate stage of assimilation Intermarriage becoming a melting pot becoming beige Individual level identifying with the dominant group Critiques of Parks and Burgess Sociologists believe Not applicable to all groups o Mainly applies to the dominant groups o Native Americans and slaves Barth and Noel believes Assimilation leads to o Exclusion o Pluralism Two separate groups o Continued ethnic stratification Rumbaut Implicit deficit model to get ahead immigrants need to learn how to become American to overcome their deficits with respect to language culture customs Assuming they want to become same as dominant because they are deficient in some way We will never truly assimilate o Native born people are fuck ups Paradox 1st and 1 5 generations we more successful than 2nd and 3rd generations They have worse IMR due to abortions and smoking bad habits Assimilation is usually a traumatic experience o Demand for black labor lead to high incarceration rates for blacks o Loose coupling between white demand for labor and incarceration rates unlike balck Authors Meyers and Massey Punishment and labor tight coupling Forced labor camps Infrastructure o Chain gangs o Railroads Hing Golub Blackmon Japanese internment Hirabayashi UW student defied eviction orders interned o Coram nobis the documents found in his case that were falsified they had evidence that was not true Plessy the man that rode the white train but was 1 8 black Jim Crow Convict leasing Social control Neo slavery Glenn Who decides who is a citizen who is not Citizenship variable over time To be a citizen is constructed though face to face interactions place specific practices that occur within larger structural contexts o Matter of belonging recognition of others o Didn t happen between whites and others because they don t assimilate o What about homo black convicts homeless Institutions are bias towards all of them Gordon Anglo conformity conforming to EU white culture Pluralism 2 separate categories Cultural change of culture patterns Structural entrance into groups Melting pot becoming beige Stages of assimilation Marital inter marriage Identity development sense of people hood Attitude absence of prejudice Behavior absence of discrimination Civic absence of power and conflict Critiques of Gordon What determines who is host society Assumes minority will assimilate to dominant group Based on dominant group accepting minority group More authors Winant Wilson EBS Class race Class based theory Color blind racism Race based ideology Reform the way we look at race from culture to historical context Discussion of race 1 Racial optimists progress 2 Racial pes optimists mixed results 3 Symbolic racism replaced biological 4 Sense of group position laissez faire Blaming backs for lack of social mobility Blaming the victim new poverty culture o Abstract liberalism white people hide behind notion of equal opportunities o Naturalization racism happens naturally o Cultural racism relies on culture to explain minority standing o Minimization there is no longer discrimination against people of color New racism practices o Subtle crossing street when you see blacks as opposed to going through them o Institutional not getting a job coz you re black o Non racism not being racist Forced labor Came about because chattel slavery ended in 1865