ANT E105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eugenics, Intersectionality, Racialization
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Potato famine pushes irish people to the u. s. 1845-1849. Irish characterized as a separate race, as backwards and dangerous. Workers unify and protect their jobs from being taken by african americans. Institutions (catholic church, tammany hall 1789) facilitate irish social mobility. Irish people are no longer considered a separate race in the u. s. Racial mixing has always existed in the us (within and outside slavery) despite one drop rule ideology. Not just about color: if a child"s mother was a slave, then child was a slave. Despite illusion of race as an essence, race in the us can be mutable. Passing: when a person presents themselves as another race; could never associate with your family again; people could be violent towards you=very complicated issue; race is much more fluid than we think. After abolition, anxiety of lack of racial purity . Elites thought african heritage would be diluted (whitened)
