SOC 210 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: White Supremacy, Polish Americans, Blue-Collar Worker
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Concept of white race trick that work brilliantly: europeans didn"t refer to themselves as white until they came to north america. African indentured servants and white indentured servants realized they have a lot in common: began rebellions based on fighting for their economic justice. The elite had to get poor people to work so they couldn"t just kill them: so they began to give certain things to people of european descent more than african people. Land, ability to testify in court, got rid of indentured servants and made them free labor, put them on slave patrol: got a little taste of power and that stopped the rebellions. Working class white people were harmed by white privilege: kept economically subordinate because slaves would take their jobs since they didn"t need to be paid whereas white working class people would need to be paid. The meaning of the 4th of july for the negro.
