ISS 335 Lecture Notes - Social Code, Jim Crow Laws
10 Sep 2013
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Summary: ethics of the living jim crow (23-32) Story about a man named richard and how he learned the jim crow laws: as a child, richard had mini battles with white children. When he got hurt and his mom found out he was fighting whites she beat him: richard worked in an optical company. When he asked for more information on what they were doing he got fired for exceeding his boundaries as a black man. Psychological wage: whites benifited if not economically, psychiologically by excluding blacks: worked as a porter in a store where a woman got beat for not paying taxes. After she got beat, a police officer arrested her for being intoxicated, even though he was aware of the beating. Police are oppressors: did deliveries on a bicycle. White boys asked him if he wanted a ride.
