SOC 134 Chapter 3: Race and Racisms: Chapter 3- Racial Ideologies
Document Summary
The implementation of the chinese exclusion act lead to a shortage of immigrant laborers. Booming californian agribusinesses turned to mexican labor. 1930: more than 1. 5 mexican and mexican americans in the us. The great depression lead to anti-mexican sentiment as unemployment soared. Immigration agents went door to door, deporting anyone without legal documentation. Mass immigration of japanese immigrants, skilled agricultural farmers, to work californian and. Alien land laws (1917)- prevented people ineligible for citizenship from owning land. Executive order 9066 (1942)- president roosevelt signed order that those of japanese descent be detained and sent to internment camps. 60% were us citizens, yet justification that us was at war with japan. 1932: 400 black men recruited to partake in a study for the long-term effects of syphilis. Men not told they had syphilis, but bad-blood and never actually given any treatment for the disease (instead the doctors simply observed the effects until death) 1972: phs employee leaked story to media.
