Who Am I?
There are 3 identities
How many identities are there?
What is the system
Who controls the power?
Grows and flows over time
What does wealth do over time
History is the Study of
Change
The Foreign Miner’s Tax was first introduced this year.
What is 1850?
It holds the most power
What macro identity level of power in society?
This government organization enforces policies to uphold the system
Police
This historical tax is an example of systemic racism that influenced modern inequality.
What is the Foreign Miner’s Tax?
What group of people were considered a threat from the mining community
Slaves and slave masters
What is machine took away jobs from independent miners
Hydraulic mining
What makes the three identities different from each other
What level of control do you have over shaping the identity?
in this period, the miners dressed uniformly because..,.
What is class relations?
California remains one of the states with the highest levels of income inequality. This is often attributed to historical exclusions with the Gold Rush being one of them.
What is systemic inequality?
High-powered water cannons stripped away dirt and minerals in order to extract gold that was deeper in the mountains/hills
What is the purpose of hydraulic mining
This immigrant group was one of the main targets of the Foreign Miner’s Tax.
Who are Chinese miners?
Macro identity
What identity are you assigned at birth?
When it comes from the dominant group to the subordinate group
How does oppression take place?
Higher unemployment rates varied between races
Why did the covid pandemic worsen racial wealth gap?I
What caused independent miners to leave
Couldn't compete with mining corporations
Water was used to have the gold sink to the bottom to make it easier to find it
What is the placer method way
It's formed by the System
How is identity formed?
The system uses oppression as a tool to determine the flow of power
How does the system and oppression connect?
Addressing the racial wealth gap requires changes in these two systems.
What are economic and legal systems?
This is when one group controls most of the resources while others are excluded.
What is wealth concentration?