What justifications did the dominant culture use

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Assignment - Humanities Racial Oppression Paper

Choose one time period and discuss the history of racial/ethnic oppression. and answer the questions

Slave trade in Virginia (1600s)
Slavery in the United States south (1800s)
Chinese railroad workers in US (1868-1924)
Trail of tears (1831-1850) Native Americans
Small Pox Epidemic Native Americans (1754-1763)
Anti-Italian Immigration (1840-1924)
Anti-Jewish Immigration (1860 - 1930)
Social Darwinism (1880-1944)
Anti-German Immigration (1680-1760)
1985 Philadelphia Police Bombing (1985)
Anti-Latino Immigration (1840-1936)
One of your own choice (must be approved by the professor)

Instructions - Answer the following questions by numbers (#1- 6).

Q1. What made you choose this topic?

Q2. What justifications did the dominant culture use to promote the oppression of the Other?

Q3. How was science or religion (or both) used to justify the oppression?

Q4. What attitudes, beliefs, and values created the situation that led to the oppression of the Other?

Q5. In what ways was race or ethnicity used to create the oppression?

Q6. How did these oppressions influence modern American ideas on race and ethnicity?

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