CLUSTER 20B Study Guide - Final Guide: Jim Crow Laws, Settler Colonialism, American Imperialism
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Changing perspectives on human variation in science (smedley) Race is not biology and is not connected to genotype. Refers to blood quantum charts: how much blood proves that someone is. Native american rules for membership for native american tribes. Obama is believed to have a strong possibility of being linked to one of the earliest slaves to come to america. His mother"s ancestors were white slave owners in colonial america. Concepts: essentialism, doctrine of discovery, jim crow laws. Assuring through structural policies and establishment white dominance. Systematic racism through discriminatory housing and education policies. Housing policies by the fha included segregated housing through redlining, creating an area for low income, immigrant, and racialized minorities to live in. Whiteness and property share a common premise. Whiteness was once a racial identity but evolved to be a form of property. Whiteness contributed to societal benefits in both the public and private sphere. Plessy v. ferguson separate but equal doctrine .
