Week 3 Racial Oppression Assignment

Week 3 – Racial Oppression Assignment

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

· 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). 2-3 pages. APA format for citations and bibliography only. 12 Font Times New Roman only.

All work must be properly cited and unless otherwise noted; do not include pure opinion.

· What made you choose this topic?

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

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

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

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

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