SOCL 2001 : Test 3
Document Summary
Goddard argued that immigrants were lesser than native born americans due to their test scores: nativism gained social support during this period (19th century into early 20th century) 20th century: anti-semitism brings about some shifts in the common classification of race, nazi"s update eugenics and bring back classification by racial measurement in order to identify jews. In america in the mid-20th , they focused on hard lined differences between races based on blood: one drop rule- the belief that one drop of black blood made a person black, tied to laws related to miscegenation. Miscegenation: multiracial marriage, dated politically- charged term, laws against intermarriage overturned by loving v. virginia, 1967. Race or ethnicity: often used interchangeably, but are separate things, race, externally imposed, involuntary, hierarchal, exclusive, unequal, ethnicity, voluntary, self-defined, non hierarchal, fluid, cultural and planar, the us has thousands of different ethnic groups, sometimes they are symbolic.
