Prompt:

What is the significance of the episode's title, "The Story We Tell"? What function has that story played in the U.S.? What are the stories about race that you tell? What are the stories you have heard? Did the film change the way people may think about those stories? If so, how?

Instructions:

Students are expected to watch the entire film assigned. Then answer the writing prompt question for the designated film. The instructions for the film are:

• Must give long answers
• Answer the prompt question(s)
• Provide an argument, and use at least two pieces of evidence from the film and course material to support the argument (course material is attached below)
• Film's Name is: "WATCH NOW Race - The Power of an Illusion"

Racial Terror Lecture Racial Exclusion Topics Legacy of Racial Terror and Exclusion Race and labor Lecture Race, space, and health Topics Native American GenocideELDESCRIPTION Hright Issued gl the port of San Francisco cal . Wong Kim Ark, born in California in 1870 Racial Exclusion . 1894, Denied entry to the United States under the Chinese Exclusion Act . Reaffirmed the 14th Amendment-> birthright citizenshipNative American Genocide . Layers of violence-> Spain, Mexico, and the United States California . Alta California (1756-63)-> Mission System (1769-1834)-> HISS ONS Indian-forced labor . Chumash Indians, involved in the establishment of 5 missions nowj SIRRRA NEVADA . San Buenaventura, Santa Barbara, Santa Ynez, La Purisima Conception, and San Luis Obispo Lunda 117701 RANGE . Mexico (1821-1848) San Miguel . rancho economy . Reduced to workers El Carre Red . United States (1848-present) La Mew . labor as domestic workers, farm workers fan Fernande . Native Americans served as a buffer between Anglos and Mexicans.Racial Exclusion Paper Sons/pa per daughters A child ofa U.S. Citizen born in the U.S. or abroad is U.S. Citizenship. Prepared by studying coaching books 3-week journey arrive in Angel Island immigration station in SF Held in Angel Island for - physical examination, - Interrogation process: name of school teacher, questions about their neighborhood, - Sometimes over 100 questions. autumn-nun . Native Americans could not . Testify in court . file suit in American court until 1872 . Run for public office Native . vote American . Native Americans . Could be declared vagrant upon the petition of Genocide a white person-> mass incarceration . Children could be kidnap under the "indenture apprentices" system established . Could be shot dead for any minor infraction "such as speaking out turn, getting in the way, or demanding payment of wage" (Carey McWilliams, Southern California, 43)Racial Exclusion - Picture Brides, 1907 Gentleman's Agreement between US and Japan limited entry ofJapanese immigrants into America Exception for Japanese wives of current American residents. - Matchmakers men review pictures of single women. - Between 1907-1924, over 10,000 picture brides arrived in the United States, another 15,000 to Hawaii. Native American Genocide Ghost Dance, a form of resistance Promise to restore the Indigenous world, making invaders disappear, buffalo return 0 Wear specific shirt protest from gunfire A treat to white settler colonialism - Brought fear to white settlers Form of resistance for Native Americans BILL SIGNED AL, KS, RI, SC. INTO LAW TN, TX. WI 6 THINGS TO KNOW LEGISLATION IL, ME. MA, MO ABOUT TITLE 42 ADVANCING MS. NH, NJ. NY. NC, PA AK, AR, CA, CO, CT. LEGISLATION DE, HI, MA, MD, MN. FAILED MT, NE, NV, NM. It is a public health law that states that any single adult or OH, VA, WA WV amily coming into the U.S. from Mexico, Guatemala, 7 Honduras, and El Salvador must be sent back to Mexico "JOHN LEWIS VOTING RIGHTS ADVANCEMENT ACT It was created by Stephen Miller and the Trump Administration as a way to prohibit families from seeking asylum in the U.S. RESTORES PROVISIONS FROM VOTING RIGHTS t was implemented in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic ACT OF 1965 Unaccompanied children and individuals from other countries were taken into custody held for days or weeks, and then STATES WITH HISTORY OF DISCRIMINATION MUST deported back to their home countries by plane GET APPROVAL BEFORE CHANGING VOTING #NoToXenophobia Since November 2020, unaccompanied children were exempt from Title 42 after a federal judge ruled that deporting them was in violation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act Black migrants are disproportionately affected by the rule and have a higher chance of facing deportation AMERICA'S VOICE Status of Libertyi Legacy of Racial Terror and Exclusion ALL #NCBANNOWALLNative American Genocide Indigenous armed resistance-> . The Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876 near Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory . Federal troops against Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne, over the gold. . U.S. Army Military George Custer lost the battle, fought in the Civil War . Refugees confined to reservations . Crazy Horse, 1877 . Guerrilla warfare . Part of the Akicita, a traditional Sioux society that kept order in villages and during migrations . Fought to prevent American encroachment on Lakota lands URETEXAST CREMMOND MBIKING ENDELF TO CEFTA THE RETREAT- Black Codes RaCiaI Terror ' New set of rules, established by state to keep Black people under control - Vagrancy laws arrested -) forced labor ' Limited access to courts, black people could testify against whites, could not vote, serve on juries or in state militia ' Ku Klux Klan & White League - Organized terrorist group ' White supremacist ' Lynched, beat, and murder black people that were \"out of line\" ' Re-impose white-majority rule - "race is the modality in which class lives...\" (Stuart Hall) - Class is one's relationship to the political economy. - Two intact classes, Two class model - Bourgeois (own the means of production) - proletariat (don't own the means of production, forced to Race 8 nd sell labor) labor ' Middle class disappears, either move up or down. - Race is a social construct, socially imposed - power is embedded in race in the way that it creates situations that are discriminatory, violent, and deadly. - Race and Class shapes people's experience. 0 helps us see structural and cultural stratification in society 0 solidarity across groups Race informs the lived experience of people Race and Labor ' The transition of California from a coercive paternalistic class ' relation to impersonal class relations of capitalism. Tm5 \"\"09\"\" ' Racial status -) assigned social position in society. - White: free labor own land, skilled, semiskilled position - Black: unfree labor-) denied to sell their labor - Native: not a good source of labor -) denied industrial jobs - Racialization of racial categories privileged access - Civilized vs. halfcivilized vs. savages - Christianity vs. heathenism Racial Terror J! 2i '- +t~+ai 34! 'I u. - . _._v - Lynching At least 4,743 victims since 18805 3,446 were black men and women ' A public spectacular for whites--Deterrence for blacks ' Ida B. Wells, grew up during the reconstruction era - investigating reporting of lynching and racial injustices - Documented and reported hundreds of black lynching - Provide a different narrative - HR. 55 Emmett Till Antilynching Act, 2021-2022 - Makes lynching a federal hate crime offense Race and labor Cultural Images History Values Beliefs Cultural Racism: Institutional Structural Publi values and Practices Racism: Policie beliefs that system that Cultural Racism-> ideas, beliefs of Narratives maintain a racial Unconscious creates and hierarchy Ideas reinforces racial superiority, one group of people inequities better than the other group. Stereotypes Conscious Political Legal Ideas Symptoms Norms Structural Racism -> use of laws, [Settler] Colonialism / Anti-Indigenous Racism / Anti Black Racism / Orientalism policies that targeted, excluded White Supremacy people. Racialized Inequities Adapted with permission from the from the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of I Goal: settle a homogeneous white society.is pistol in DON JUAN CORTINA. his hand The Ex-Terror of the Rio Grande Roleased from Prison. DEEDS OF THE NOTORIOUS DESPERADO Racial Terror A Career of Crime Unparalleled In This Country-It's Release Excites Apprehension. . Resistance in the form social bandits, corridos (ballads), "Mexican Robin WANTED! Hood," engaging in vengeance MEXICAN BANDIT . Juan Cortina in Texas . Gregorio Cortez, Ballad of HM CD Gregorio Cortez Damoncs . Joaquin Murrieta in California . Las Gorras Blancas in New Mexico JOAQUIN MURIETTA thriptta is the Leader of the watersass plan doggsina ease Holds with murder. rettesy. And mallis cearaiza. Is podBRIDGET BIDDY MASON Race and Labor 1818-1891 CALIFORNIA MIDWIFE, NURSE, REAL-ESTATE ENTREPRENUER, PHILANTHROPIST, . African Americans view as a threat to white free labor in California MOTHER . Prohibit free African Americans immigration . "Degraded white labor," Delegate H.A. Taft of San Luis Obispo . 1852 Fugitive Law SHE BE CKLEPCRSTA . Able to arrest and return runaway enslaved person . African Americans, Fugitive Slaves . Denied the right to vote, to hold public office, to testify in court ATTENTION. against white persons, to serve on juries, to attend public schools, to to homestead public land. The Slave hunter is among us! . Bridget "Biddy" Mason (1818-1891) BE ON YOUR GUARD! . Black entrepreneur, nurse, own land AN ARREST IS PLANNED FOR TONIGHT. BE READY TO RECEIVE THEM, WHENEVER THEY COME!Racial Exclusion . "Nation of Immigrants" . Nationalist myth feeds to racial imagination . Ideas about the land of NOT A opportunity . All immigrants have shared similar histories and experiences NATION OF IMMIGRANTS . Common Trajectory for all immigrants SETTLER COLONIALISM, . Migrated=> Overcame WHITE SUPREMACY, Adversity-> assimilated to U.S. AND A HISTORY OF ERASURE AND EXCLUSION society . Bootstrap model, individualism, OXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ self-madeRace, space, and health . Racial treatment of nonwhite communities led to the racialization of the spaces where they lived. . In Los Angeles, the role public health officials contributed to the racialization of space where Chinese, Japanese, and Mexicans lived and labeled the area where they lived as "rotten spots" "Health Official not only incorporated their racially charged visions into polices and ordinances that targeted ethnic communities but also helped shape the ways mainstream populations perceived ethnic peoples." (Natalia Molina, Fit To Be Citizens?, 3) . Perception of immigrants threaten the health of the nation FIT TO BE CITIZENS? . Using language, public discourse-> shaped racial categories and attached meaning to categories PUBLIC HEALTH AND RACE IN LOS ANGELES, 1879-1839 . Produced racial difference. . Racial Order MATALIA MOLINA66. America Racial Exclusion must be kept America. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924 29 National Origin Act or Johnson-Reed Act of 1924- set a national quota on immigration for any country Immigration Act of 1917 or Asiatic Barred Zone Act- to 2% of the number of persons for that country restricted immigration of people deemed who were living in the USA in 1890. No restriction Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882- excluded Chinese "undesirable," instituted a tax, a literacy test, on immigration from Western Hemisphere. Denied population from entering the USA aimed to limit Asian immigration Admissions to all "aliens ineligible for citizenship. 1882 1907 1917 1921 1924 Gentlemen's Agreement Act of 1907- reduced the Emergency Quota Act of 1921- limited annual immigration of Japanese population number of immigration to 3% of number of persons from that country living in the USA in 1910.Race, space, and health NTY JAME . Anti-Chinese sentiment in Los Angeles . Increased laundry taxes fivefold from $5 to $25 p/month . Raised the tax on vegetable peddlers from $3 to $20 p/month Racial stigmas: marked as carriers of dirt & diseases . The Cubic Air Ordinance, 1870 Required at least 500 cubic feet of space per person in their living quarters, only enforced in Chinese communities . Residence District Ordinance, 1908 Restricted where Chinese people could live and do business . Chinatown-> dirty, disease-filled, and immoral . The Chinese Six Companies . Advocated for the Chinese community.Racial Exclusion Relational/Comparative Perspective on U.S. Immigration... All immigrants do not share the similar process of cultural adaption to U.S. society... Europeans: Irish, German, Polish, Hungarian Accepted as white Americans -> benefit from whiteness-> pass as "American"-> Assimilate to U.S. American Society . Wages of whiteness: the act and belief of white people that white is superior and must be preserve (David Roediger) . Example: working-class white people believe white is superior and creates a strong racial divide between nonwhite and white working-class populations that result in violence, racism, segregation, discrimination. Nonwhite people: Asians, Latinx, African Do not pass as "American" > Do not benefit from whiteness-> Does not assimilate to U.S. American Society-> "illegal alien" . Illegal Alien: someone marked as different and casted outside the imagined nation, poses a threat to national-state identity. (Mae Ngai) . Example: Mexican immigrants have been/are classified as illegal aliens that have been marked as different as a result have experience racism, violence, and discrimination against them.THE JAPANESE EVIL IN CALIFORNIA Race, space, and health BY JAMES D. PHELAN UNITED STATES SENATOR FOR CALIFORNIA THE farming communities of California are organizing to suppress the Japanese evil. The State is practically of one mind on the subject, and because it is a California prob- lem, California is entitled to speak with authority. Of course, it is only a matter of time when the Japanese will . Rise of Mexicans and Japanese populations, public spread eastward, but that will not be until California has been exhausted. The soil and climate of the Pacific Coast health department shaped the experience of new are very attractive to the Japanese, and the remuneration immigrants. for labor is high. They will not voluntarily emigrate from Japan to Manchuria, nor to the Philippines. When Amer- . Chinese racialized as other-> ica is closed to them, they will necessarily have to spread in Asiatic territory, and that is where they belong. They . ASIAN= OTHER= Japanese community belong there, because they are non-assimilable here. They compose a permanently foreign element, and precipitate . Reify yellow peril discourse a race question far more serious than that in the South. Why " more serious "? Because they are a masterful peo- . High birth rates-> racial threat ple, of great industry and ingenuity. They have no dispo- sition in California to work for wages, but seek control of . Body type good for agricultural work the soil by purchase, leasehold or a share of the crops, and, under these circumstances, become impossible competitors. . Japanese live in unsanitary conditions, farmer They know no rest and respect no standards. In other words, the white man is driven from the soil, and that is workers spread disease. the particular point which I desire to impress at this time upon the people of the East. . Typhoid fever-> type of produce farmed, berries and celery, ideal carriers, consumed raw.Immigration Quotas Based on National Origins in 1929 Country or Area Quota Country or Area Quota Afghanistan* 100 India* 100 Irish Free State Arabian peninsula 17,853 100 Italy 5,802 Austria 1,413 Japan* 100 Belgium 1,304 Latvia 236 China* Liberia 100 100 Monaco 100 Czechoslovakia 2,874 Netherlands 3,153 Denmark 1,181 Norway 2,377 Egypt 100 Palestine (British mandate) 100 Rwanda (Belgian mandate) 100 Ethiopia (Abyssinia) 100 Sweden 3,314 Finland 569 Switzerland 1,707 France 3,086 Germany 25,957 *Quotas for these countries available only for persons born within the respective countries Great Britain 65,721 who are eligible to citizenship and admissible Greece 307 under the immigration laws of the U.S. Hungary 869 Minimum 100Race, space, and health Mexicans also spread disease, 1910s . Viewed as ignorant and should be educated in basics of health and hygiene . Typhus disease attached to Mexican population Marked and targeted all areas where Mexicans lived as location in need of inspection . Enforced personal hygiene but did not improve living conditions. . Caption: "Typical row of dark and filthy Mexican dwellings in a southern CALIFORNIA COUNTY." . Protest: formal letter of complaint . systemic inequality, not cultural habit . "The Mexican race is not different from the American race and one should not think that disease takes hold in only our bodies. We are all human and they should not apply this procedure only to Mexicans."