SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wounded Knee Massacre, Indentured Servant, Miscegenation
30 Jan 2017
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Ethnicity is a fluid category: the degree to which an individual can slip and slide through multiple ethnic identities depends on the degrees to which those identities are stigmatized. The impact of the national origins system: immigration quotas were assigned by nationality favoring. European immigration in a hierarchy of desirability: whiteness was a condition for citizenship. The medieval workshop was transformed to the capitalist factory. Cooperative relations were transformed to relations based on exploitation and profit. Products were developed, not to meet needs, but to make profits. Conquistadores quest to capture land, riches, and souls (spread religion) of the indigenous. Barrolome de las casas and encomienda system. New laws against miscegenation (racial mixing: created hierarchal privileges, caring primarily about pure. Replaced indigenous slaves with african slaves because it was easy to tell who exactly was a slave and who was spanish. Quest to capture land and resources (no religious outreach)
