Week 10: Racial Formation in the United States Actual Exam Questions And Correct Detailed Answers.
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OMI.
What is Race, according to Omi and Winant? - correct answer Race is a concept, a representation or signification of identity that refers to different types of human bodies, the perceived corporeal and phenotypic markers of difference and the meanings and social ...
What is Race, according to Omi and Winant? - correct answer Race is a concept, a
representation or signification of identity that refers to different types of human bodies, the perceived
corporeal and phenotypic markers of difference and the meanings and social practices that are ascribed
to these differences
- has played an unique role in the formation and historical development of the United States
What is ethnicity? - correct answer 'a collectivity within a larger society having real
or putative common ancestry, memories of a shared historical past, and a cultural focus on one or more
symbolic elements defined as the epitome of their peoplehood'
- Ethnicity linked to your ethnic group and its cultural content/cultural practices
What is Race making/Racialization? - correct answer It is the extension of racial
meaning to a previously racially unclassified relationship, social practice or group.
- Ex: European colonialism, African slavery, racial profiling
When did race making or racialization begin? - correct answer Assimilating "New
Immigrants" from Europe
- There was a fear of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe (Slavonic, Latin, Italian, Jewish)
- All European immigrants were not simply white
What happened in the 19th century with immigration? - correct answer - 1820-
1860: more than 5 million immigrants would arrive in the US
, - This is 1/2 the pop in 1820, and more than the entire pop in 1790s
- Most: Irish immigrants dominated
What are the 3 peaks of immigration? - correct answer - 1840's: German and Irish
- Pre 1880: Northern and Western Europe
- 1880-1920: Southern and Eastern Europe
With the influx of immigration, what was the problem with "Caucasian-ness"? - correct answer
New immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe were the "inbetween peoples" (Roediger)
- Existed between nonwhiteness and full inclusion as whites
The two Acts of 1882 - correct answer - The Chinese Exclusion Act
(restricts all Chinese laborers)
(Bars Chinese naturalization)
- Immigration Act of 1882
(Specifically made regulation of immigration the duty of the Federal Government [Treasury])
(Barred those likely to become public charges)
1924 Johnson Reed Act - correct answer - Limited immigration from the Eastern
Hemisphere to 154,000 per year
- Used 1890 Census Figures to determine national origins quotas
- Created visas, and screening by consuls abroad
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