African-American
This is the best model to explain the African American Experience.
What is the Blauner Hypothesis?
They were chattel (sold as commodity)
subjected to massive inequalities and attacks on their culture
Perpetuated and reinforced thru their distinctive physical traits
paternalistic relations/caste system
Challenged Plessy v Fergeson
separate is NOT equal
ruled against racial segregation
What is Brown v The board of Education? (1954)
Colonization of Western territories led people away
Gold rush of 1849 and transcontinental railroad of the 1860s drew people to America.
What was the Push and Pull of Chinese/Chinese-Americans in the mid-1800s?
A legislative victory for natives;
Native laws will be protected, states cannot impose their laws on tribes.
What is Worcester v Georgia (1832)?
A person's awareness of his or her own perspective and the perspective of others
What is Dual or Double Consciousness (Web DuBois)?
Victims of direct harm are dead
perpetrators are diffuse -->white ppl who didnt supprt/blacks who werent slaves
Harms were legal at the time
causal chain of harm is long and complex
What is the argument against reparations for slavery?
A Functionalist, he argued that Blacks were still too recently removed from slavery to take their place as equals in society. Believed that Blacks must adopt an economic program of manual labor and self-help (industrial education)
Who is Booker T Washington?
Children that were not the 1st born son (who often inherited all of the family fortune) would come to America seeking opportunity and wealth.
What were the results of Primogeniture?
Land shall not be taken unless in just and lawful ways authorized by congress
What is the Northwest Territory Ordinance (1787)?
African Americans; They've made the most contact with the public sphere and has made the most progress toward the goal of full secondary assimilation
Article 4/Sec 2
Article 4/Sec 4
Deliberate slowing up of work
destruction of property
feigning illness and pregnancy
self-inflicted injury
suicide
infanticide
An Anti-Assimilationist, he organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association. His longterm goal was to leave the US and settle in Africa.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Sojourners (ppl who come to the country, work, send money back and eventually return to home country) in the 1840s
Who were The Early Chinese?
All land west of the App mountains was Indian country
any settlers east who dont have a legal land title must return
All future purchases from the Indians must be conducted in public meetings attended by representatives of the king
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
2) The movement embraced the dominant code of American values and beliefs
3) Support from other groups
4) The influence of mass media
What are 4 factors that facilitated the success of the Civil Rights Movement?
there was more intermixing with the native and slave populations
Just saw slaves as unfortunate people in the economy
slaves had legal rights and could potentially buy freedom
How was slavery in Brazil different than the USA?
SCOTUS ruled that African Americans had no rights which whites were bound to respect
African Americans could never become citizens of the united states
The Constitution does not protect African-Americans
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Primary purpose is to support the notion that the main cause of problems among minorities is a lack of effort, rather than racial discrimination.
pits minorities against each other
What are criticisms of the Model Minority belief?
Humans are simply part of a larger reality
land existed, no notions of owning/selling/buying
more group-oriented
Tribes were organized around egalitarian values.
A more accurate measure would be "per capita income" because of this fact about Asian families living in the USA
What is the fact that asian families tend to have more workers in the household?
Cultural strengths have protected the black family through effects of slavery and recent pattern of black male unemployment.
What is the Ethnic Resource Model?
As long as things are separate, there can still be equality.
De jure segregation
What is Plessy v Furgeson (1896)?
A compromise btw Japanese and Americans; repeal school segregation in turn to only bring documented non-laborers (Picture-Bride Invasion)
What is the Gentleman's Agreement Act of 1908?
A defeat for natives. Natives have no right to sue; you must be a sovereign nation
What is Cherokee Nation v Georgia?
"tsu" clans - families with common ancestors
"hui kuan" - benevolent associations based on district of origin in China
"Tongs" - secret societies (provide illegal drugs, gambling, prostitution)
What are the ethnic enclaves of Chinatown?