SOCIOL 131AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: White Primaries, Redlining, List Of Ethnic Slurs
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The see experience: between 1890-1924, there was massive migration of southern and. Eastern europeans (sees) to united states: 1906-1914: >700,000 sees admitted to u. s. /year, 70% of all arriving immigrants, by 1930, 12 million european immigrants in the u. s, > 50% sees, italians, poles, greeks, austrians, hungarians, Portuguese, finns, bohemians, russians, bulgarians, : many catholic or jewish, often called new immigrants . Color and race at turn of 20th century: race color, color often used to distinguish 5 great races , race aften used to designate smaller race groups like the. Chinese, blacks, americans, : race ethnicity, term ethnics not popularized until 1960s, ex. Italians could be seen both white and racially inferior because part of italian race . Meet george: color: white, complexion: dark, race: russniak, nationality: czecho-slovakia. U. s. census: census categorized sees as white, but very concerned about new immigrants, devoted lots of census pages to analyses of foreign born (1st and 2nd generation)
