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35 Cards in this Set
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Queer Domesticity
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mainly male immigrants from China living under one roof
women under same roof considered prostitutes |
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Disease Discourses
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if people were diseased, were described as looking Chinese
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"Syphilitic prostitute"
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white men were getting syphilis supposedly from Chinese prostitutes
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"Chinaman in opium dens"
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was called queer because of men laying on each other and smoking from the same pipe
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1848-Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
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ends Mex. Ame. War
grants US citizenship to Mex. in acquired territories gives land rights to Mex. property owners |
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La Raza
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means the race/the people based on sense of community Mex. Ame. felt b/cause of white seg.
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Segregation into Congregation
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Mex. Ame. comm turns segration into a tight knit community of those in similar situations
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1930 Culture of Unity
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S, E working class Euros reshaped the meaning of US nat. identity
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Origin of "melting pot"
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lit., film, comic, theater portraying America as equal and accepting
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Euro immigrants as "redemptive insiders"
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deligetimized Anglo leadership
pop culture ways of redefining "American" |
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New Deal
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Social Welfare FDR
Soc. Security Unemploy. Benefits Pub. Edu. Need based assistance Food Stamps (TANF) |
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National Labor Relations/ Wagner Act 1935
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1. Bargain in good faith (unions)
2.Unions had to follow dem. procedures 3. Contracts between labor/company backed by govt. |
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Social Security Act of 1935
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pensions for retirees
applied almost exc. to men only benefitted women as widows exclud. farm and domestic workers (main min. and women |
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Federal Housing Act 1934
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if lender defaults on mortgage loan, fed. gov. would subsidize which decreased bank risk to lend
98% of FHA loans to whites |
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Racial Zoning
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dividing up cities by race
A) all white, all Christian B) all white C) mostly white D) negro (this is the reason for ghettos to keep whites separate) |
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Steering
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real estate agents who only show available housing in concordance with the person's race who is looking to buy (reproduces residential seg.)
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Blockbusting
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threatening whites in neighb. where people of color were moving in w/declining prop. value
encouraging to sell now (under value) then real estate would sell it higher to people of color |
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Restrictive Covenants
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clauses on prop. deals that restric. sale of homes solely to whites
1948 Shelley v. Kramer challenged this |
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Redlining
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the practice of Home Owners Loan Assoc. to divide up cities by those most likely to be offered loans
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Significance of housing to other life chances
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lower property tax=lower funding for school which was true for most minority neighborhoods along with job oppor.
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1790 Naturalization Act
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allowed US to deem natural citizenship upon free whites with good character; citizenship could only be gained through the father
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1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
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banned all Chinese immigration into the US
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1890 Wounded Knee Massacre
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500 Native Americans killed over a one of them wanting to keep a gun
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1907 Gentlemen's Agreement Act
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US wpuld not discriminate against Japanese already in the while Japan would not allow further emigration to the US (except for buisnessmen)
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1917 Asiatic Barred Zone
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act which banned immigration from the majority of southeast Asia; India, Indonesia, etc.
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1922 Cable Act
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a law that allowed women to keep US citizenship if marrying a foreigner unless Asian
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1924 Johnson Reed Act
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law that limited amount of immigrants in the US; only 2% of the immigrant's country's population could come to the US
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1924 Indian Citizenship Act
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granted full citizenship to Native Americans
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Threat of Miscegenation
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interracial marriage and children which could threaten the structure of white dominance in US society
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Manifest Destiny
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the belief Americans had that it was their duty to develop this country
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Color-Blind Unionism
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policies that were seemingly race neutral that actually had race-based effects
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Fair Labor Standards Act 1938
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min. wage, overtime pay, max hours (colorblind, doesn't mention race, but treats differently for farm and domestic workers
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non-racial syndicalism
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cannot fix economy by ignoring race: AFL more seg., CIO more prog.
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mutualistas
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families taking care of other families because people of color weren't eligible for needs-based assistance
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inter-generational wealth
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homes passed down through Racial Zoning, red lining (also SS affected income as well)
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