Divided we stand
Subtitle: racism in America from Jamestown to Trump
By: David R. Morse
Publisher: Paramount Market Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781941688489
Subjects: Racism; Race relations; Toleration
Description: David R. Morse details how the "whiteness" of America came about and how it has become more prevalent from time to time. As various immigrant groups have come to the United States, usually in response to a need for labor, the public and Congress have responded by harassment and limiting the numbers of immigrants who are welcome in the country. The pendulum has swung many times in the last 200 years, as Mexicans, Chinese, Italians, Irish, Jews, Eastern Europeans, and now Muslims have come to the U.S., fleeing violence or seeking economic opportunity. The most well-known struggles are of African Americans who came to this country not of their own free will but as slaves. From the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement to Black Lives Matter, their attempts to achieve equal status in the United States is different than the stories of other people of color. Their early experiences with racial hatred, Jim Crow, and slurs about their character, work ethic, and intelligence color their views of justice in the U.S., unlike immigrant groups who have often come willingly in hopes of a better life. Primary and secondary sources make a cogent argument that people of color or ethnicities that are different from the country's white Anglo founders have always been viewed with suspicion that they are taking jobs from whites, bringing crime, or overloading public services. At the same time, these immigrant groups have contributed to economic growth and entrepreneurship and, without them, the country's economy would stagnate.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: White Americans; title: The Anglo-Saxons; title: The Irish and Germans; title: The Italians and Jews; title: The integration of white folks; title: Cracks in the white wall; title: Part 2: African Americans; title: Slavery and the idea of the "superior" Caucasian race; title: Jim Crow and the Great Migration; title: From Civil Rights to Sister Souljah; title: The beginning and end of "post racial" America; title: Part 3: Hispanic Americans; title: Conquests; title: Cheap labor and mob violence; title: Double standards; title: The birth of the illegal immigrant; title: Immigration reform in theory; deportation in practice; title: Part 4: Asian Americans; title: Exotic Orientals and Chinese immigrants; title: The gentleman's agreement with Japan; title: East Indians and Filipinos; title: From aliens and allies to model minority; title: Part 5: Race and science; title: Early racial thinking, Social Darwinism and eugenics; title: Modern genetics and anthropology take hold; title: The rise of the human genome; title: Racial classification and the U.S. Census; title: Part 6: Where are we  now? Where are we going?; title: A new racial divide?; title: Race, economics and society; title: The present, the future.