Race V. Ethnicity

Race and Ethnicity were two in the same to me in these chapters. When I think of race I think of racism but I don’t think in this chapter they differentiated between race and ethnicity. I think if you were anything other than American you were discriminated against.

Stratified

Stratified- In Takaki’s article he uses this term to describe the line between races and social order. Example is how the bosses were whites. Also that “Everything depended on race and even shit”

Resistance

Resistance- Not giving into low wages and stand up for what one believes in

Model Minority

Model Minority: Used to describe Japanese people in Takais article. The reason they were the model minority is because they were preceded as passive people who did not really create any problems.

American Dream

American Dream: An concept that when people come to America they will find great wealth and that they will be free do pursue any dream they want.

GI BILL

The GI Bill: any of various Congressional bills enacted to provide funds for college educations, home-buying loans, and other benefits for armed-services veterans.

Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action- A us law implemented making it mandatory for certain organizations/universities to maintain an proportional number of minority employees reflecting usually the population. Brodkin states that affirmative action is something that helped Jews succeed.

WRA

The War Relocation Authority was the government at the time. What happened is after the war the Japanese were looked at as terrorist so they were all made to go live in internment camps so the government could look after them.

Jim Crow Laws

referring to one being "seperate but equal" which also resulted in the unfair treatment of blacks after slavery had ended

Emancipation

to be free. referring to slaves. but as we read in zinn's article simply because one is emancipated does not guarantee freedom.

Free Labor

Since the slaves did everything to cultivate the land the slaves are the ones who should own the land.

abolitionist

A person who fought to try and end slavery. Preferable blacks instead of whites due to unconscious racism.

White Mans Burden

the idea that whites have to deal with blacks. whites have to deal with civilizing black too.

Scientific Racism

the belief that whites were superior because black according to science were apart of a different species making them inferior.

Giddy Multitude

a discontented class of indentured servants, slaves, and landless freemen both white and black, the Stephanos and the Trinculos as well as the Calibans of Virginia. I believe that this is the title because in this chapter we learned that slavery was not just a black issue.

Assimilation

people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

Manifest Destiny

the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences.

The Matrix of Domination

The Matrix of Domination can be found on page 51, it is the term coined by Patricia Hill Collins. This term refers how each particular form of privilege is part of a bigger system. You cannot predict how one aspect of privilege weighs on a person.

InDiViDuAlIsM:

The social world begins and ends with individuals. Individuals push the blame onto others. When and individual can’t see themselves as part of the problem its hard to see an individual in the solution. Makes us blind to privilege because privilege has nothing to do with individuals. Individuals participate in a social system.

Getting off the Hook

This is a term used also to push the blame on others to help deny any effects that oppression or privilege has on others. People will often used terms such as “I wasn’t trying to do that” to diffuse the blame from themselves. Bottom line, people don’t like to feel guilty therefore they will do what they have to do to place blame on others or make themselves feel less guilty.