What are the implication of white trash being labeled a race

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Assignment: Journal- The Legacies of Slavery in the Americas

African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross - Episode 1 (The Black Atlantic)

1) Juan Garrido & Esteban

2) 1619- Describe "how things changed" for Africans with Jamestown and the gradual emergence of slave based plantations

3) Anthony Johnson and the emergence of "race based" slavery

Parker's Ch. 12 "All the Slaves are Enemies"

4) What does Parker say about the emergence of race?

5) Undesirable immigrants

6) "Africanization" of the Islands

Johnson, "You Should Give them Blacks to Eat"

7) Use of animals for creating an air of fear for all colonists

8) State funding for state-sanctioned torture

9) Legacies that we see modern day (hegemony) regarding use of animals to threaten people of color

Montejo, "Diary of a Runaway Slave"

10) Describe the barracoons that Montejo describes

11) Chinese slaves in Cuba

12) Importance Montejo puts on the "games" played by slaves

Jones-Rogers, "Mistresses in the Making"

13) How did young white women learn to be "mistresses' and what did that entail?

14) What types of punishments did enslaved Africans in the US endure?

15) Did Whites have to own someone to exert power over them? Explain.

16) Importance of White women inheriting slaves

Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment

17) Purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment

18) What exception is given in the Thirteenth Amendment? Why is it significant?

19) Purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation

20) What exception is given in the Emancipation Proclamation? Why is it significant?

Black Codes

21) What consequences did whites face if they interacted with blacks? Explain.

22) Why would it be beneficial to keep the two racial groups separate? (from the oppressor's point of view)

23) Mentions of children in the Mississippi Black Codes

"Pedigree and Poor White Trash"

24) How did the terminology for poor southern Whites change after the Civil War?

25) What are the implications of ‘white trash' being labeled a ‘race'?

26) Explain the popular depictions of poor white trash and explain how the equivalences benefit the oppressor

Caste by Wilkerson, pgs. 121-130

27) How was citizenship made inaccessible, and how does it relate to the creation of racial caste?

28) Why were the stories of Takao Ozawa and Vaishno Das Bagai significant?

29) What were the similarities between how Dalits and Black Americans were treated?

30) Comment on the idea that some people are ‘dirty' and the urge to wash yourself after being near them.

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