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"America has an egregious and protracted history involving violent and cruel practices used to dehumanize communities deemed to be the 'Other.' These documented acts began with the Indigenous People of the New World (theft of land and near genocide), the enslavement and legal constriction of African people for 350 years (theft of labor, freedom, and life), followed by the subjugation of Asian immigrants and Hispanic migrant workers (exploiting their labor and the nullification/denial of their entrepreneurship). These oppressive practices were introduced and initially sustained in the New World by White European colonizers primarily from England. Other European ethnic groups that immigrated to America and viewed as lesser or inferior, such as the Irish, Germans, Italians, and those from Eastern European nations, experienced otherness but navigated the American social vetting system until they were deemed White and thus accepted (Ignatiev,1995; Roediger, 2006). Within this sociopolitical crucible, racial identity, acceptance, or rejection are determined and managed as commodities or indicators of social worth. Both then and now, the social construction of group identities, such as th

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Author

Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino, 1952-

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190922337

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities