Race: The Power of an Illusion (Adelman)
This term describes the policy of deeming integrated communities a financial risk.
What is redlining?
What industry was Albertville in Arizona known for?
What is Poultry Plants?
This process transforms rural employment as jobs in traditional industries like agriculture declined and service-sector jobs increased.
What is rural economic restructuring?
About 1.3M of these were lost in Mexico’s agricultural sector by 2002.
What are jobs?
This 1830 act forcibly relocated the eastern Native Americans west of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
What kinds of workers arrived in Albertville?
What is low wage, unskilled laborists who didn't speak english?
This is a type of employment that became common in rural areas as workers take on multiple part-time or low-paid jobs.
What is multiple-job holding?
This 1990s trade agreement required Mexico to remove import restrictions on cheaper U.S. corn
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
Critics say this “treat everyone the same” approach to race related policy locks in generationally accumulated white advantages.
What is “colorblind” policy?
Who did Arizona’s Self Deportation Bill of 2011 target?
Who are unauthorized immigrants?
As traditional gender roles developed in agriculture, this group's contributions to farm labor were often undervalued because they were associated with domestic responsibilities, despite performing administrative and manual farm work too.
Who are rural women / farmers' wives?
This movement demands removing agriculture from the international trade system.
What is the food sovereignty movement?
This scholar says, “The slick thing about whiteness is that whites are getting the spoils of a racist system even if they are not personally racist.”
Who is John Powell?
What was Operation SouthPAW?
What is a series of raids to “Protect American Workers” from Mexican workers?
In California, this agricultural workforce faced historically low wages and exploitative working conditions, racial discrimination, and inadequate housing, leading to struggles for union recognition and better labor protections.
Who are migrant farmworkers?
This UFW (United Farm Workers) founder said the food on our tables is harvested by people who often cannot satisfy their own hunger.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
The Homestead Act converted this many million acres (~10% of U.S. land) into private hands.
What is 270 million acres?
What percentage of wage earners take a hit when immigrants move into the economy, as explained by Giovanni Peri? And, what does that group in the percentage have in common?
What is 10%, and they don’t have a high school diploma?
This consequence of rural commuting occurs when residents work outside their home communities and spend less money at local businesses, potentially causing rural shops and services to close and turning villages into places primarily used for sleeping.
What are “dormitory” settlements?
This 1986 act legalized ~1.1M farmworkers, who were later replaced by new undocumented workers.
What is the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)?