This enabled those who were previously considered “not quite white” to mix together and obtain the advantages of “whiteness.” Some of these advantages included the build up of equity over time and wealth when the values of their homes increased. Real estate and the regulations of the government gave these government-guaranteed loans to white homeowners and tried to keep those who were not white, out. This is when segregated neighborhoods, or suburbs, like for example Levittown, were being built up around the country, with the help of new funding and federal policies.
Jews, and other Europeans prospered better, especially after the war. Refuting its own reasoning in Ozawa, the justices declared that whiteness should be based not on science, but on “the common understanding of the white man.” Bhagat Singh Thind, the court contradicted itself by saying that Asian Indians were not legally white, even though science classified them as Caucasian. Less than a year after this occurred, in the case of United States v. They were classified as Mongoloid rather than Caucasian. According to science, the Supreme Court, decided that the Japanese were not legally white.
#Race the power of an illusion episode 3 summary skin
He argued that his skin was physically white and that race shouldn’t be a factor in gaining citizenship. The question that came about was: Who was white? The 1790 Naturalization Act had limited naturalized citizenship to “free, white persons.” Many new people who had arrived petitioned the courts to be legally designated white in order to gain citizenship. In 1922, Takao Ozawa also appealed the rejection of his citizenship application. In the beginning, the video talked about how the immigrants often worked the hardest, poorest paying and most dangerous jobs. Italians, Hebrews, Greeks and other ethnics were considered by many to be separate races.
The last episode called “The House We Live In” highlighted a lot of information that I was unaware of before watching it.
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