CAS SO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: California Alien Land Law Of 1913, Model Minority, Scientific Racism
30 Oct 2017
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In europe, cultural racism: call to protect national (white) identity from criminal and polluting cultural outsiders: e. g anti-refugee rhetoric, swarming us. 20th century: longer unemployment, but have wealth as cushion, model minority status masks persistent stereotypes and high pressure, all racial classifications encompass diverse qualifications. Net worth or wealth=central: difference between income & wealth, wealth inequality growing since civil rights movement, 2008-09 recession with greater effect on races with lower overall wealth. Not simply due to income, but limited opportunity: inability to invest/save (live paycheck to paycheck, defines where you can live/ what education your kids get, strong predictor of children"s outcomes (health, education, welfare) Historical origins of black wealth inequalities: slavery, violence (lynching, white mob violence in 1920s, 1960s, church burnings, unequal policing, jim crow laws, residential discrimination, white flight, loan discrimination (redlining, unequal treatment of black gis post wwii.
