Prompt

Please answer the following question(s). it can respond to more than one question.

• How does race play a role in the organization of our society?
• In what ways does intersectionality help us challenge systems of oppression?
• How does the impact of citizenship status contribute to forms of marginalization, oppression, and struggle?

Instructions

• Answer the question/prompt.
• Formulate a coherent thought(s) to write the response.
• Provide a clear argument
• IMPORTANT: Provide evidence from the course material to support the argument.
• watch this video might help to answer this questions as well
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWP_N_FoW-I

Course Material:

Course Themes 1. Mobility: the moving of aggrieved communities from one place to another. 2. Identities: the way aggrieved communities identify and are/have been identified. 3. Racism: the different forms of discrimination, violence, and segregation experienced by aggrieved communities. 4. Mobilization: the different forms of resistance, solidarity, and community-organizing in aggrieved communities. 5. Contributions to U.S. society: the many ways aggrieved communities have played a key role in the making ofa new society in the United States. Citizenship EVELYN NAKANO GLENN 0 Citizenship linked to labor. 0 Right to work, unionize, compete for jobs - Citizenship and labor shaped the relationship between race, gender, and class-) shaped relations between white and nonwhite groups. - Citizenship and labor systems created - Larges masses of immigrant and racialized labor. ' Develop coercive labor systems that relied on racialized structures of control ' Struggles over labor & citizenship rights \fRace, a modern phenomenon . Race, a term that became popularized in the 19th century. THE . Before the 19th century INVENTION OF RACE . Environmental determinism, Religion, language, EUROPEAN region, culture, ancestry MIDDLE . Darker color considered evil, bad. AGES . Race-making: . "strategic essentialisms are posited and assigned through a variety of practices and pressures, so as to construct a hierarchy of peoples for different treatment," Geraldine HengRace is about power 0 The idea of race has no biological significance 0 A product of human social systems, of human activities and imagination. 0 Legitimizes differential treatment on the basis of cultural or biological. 0 A social construct, an ideology, as a relationship of power Race is not a fixed category. It changes over time. It is also contested. - \"Racism is like a Cadillac; they make a new model every year" (Malcom X) lllllll" I l'lll('\\ Race - Racial formation: \"the process by which social, economic and political forces determine the content and importance of racial categories, and by which they are in turn shaped by racial meanings\" (Omi and Winant). - Example: US. Census, Redlining, Affirmative Action - Racial Project: An effort to organize and distribute resources along particular racial lines, can be racist. ' Example: Redistricting lines - Racial Domination (coercive) v. Racial Hegemony (coercive MRJiAHU'H'.lii'i\\!i1\\\\l\\&\\l &consent) ' Jim Crow Era -)Mu|ticu|tura| Society Intersectionality ea- : , :*.c;,,",<._ _. iv coined by kimberlee crenshaw. originally a framework to talk about the experience of black women. marginalized in white women circles community term describe intersection multiple oppressions lens see different forms inequality operating together class race gender sexuality religion physical abilities citizenship status we can do it intersectionality agency acknowledge that people are not simply victim or an oppressed person but historical actor capable acting for its own material interest. attitude thoughts actions intentions and desire improve one life chances against obstacles disproportionally affect group identity politics vs. must translate into specific your inform . social economical political status. used draw boundaries between those who included excluded passport> entitled to protection, rights, and recognized PASSY . Excluded=> not entitled to recognition, rights, and criminalized . Determined by United States . Borders, federal and state statues, documents of America (passport) . Local: "private citizen", welfare department, policeCitizenship 14th and 15th amendment Born or naturalized in the U.S.9 US. citizens (ratified 1868) The right to vote (ratified 1870} American Citizenship aligned with protestant beliefs Christian white male supremacy Unworthy of US. Citizenship: Native Americans and Asian godless and uncivilized Referred_a_s_heathen: rude, illiterate, Wild unCIVIIIzed, savage, cruel Excluded from voting Denied the right to hold public office Not allowed to testified in court against whites Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexicans considered citizens, classified as white Land dispossession, violence