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Questions
1. How was life in pre-slavery and pre-racial America?
2. How did Anglo colonization and Iberian colonization see the issue of racial mixing differently and what was the impact of that?
3. Two constant processes whose continuation we've been observing through the course are 'land privatization' and the 'production of difference'. What are these and what function do they serve?
4. What were some of the key differences that existed between the immigration of Irish women and Chinese women to the US?
5. What were some of the elements that played a part in the qq of Mexican-Americans during the Mexican War and its immediate aftermath?
6. What were some of the key chances that happen to the idea of race in the North after the partial abolition of slavery?
7. A key point from Orlando Patterson is that slavery as an institution throughout the world and throughout history, has always existed in moments in which Freedom was exalted as a high value. What does he mean when he says that the logic of slavery is that of maximizing freedom?
8. What was the role of Public Brothels in Europe before US colonization, according to Federici's text?
9.What were some of the key changes from the Tobacco Slavery period to the Cotton Slavery period in the ways that slavery was justified as an institution?
10. Although settlers from Norway arrived in America centuries before Columbus, their attempt to settle was unsuccessful. What differences existed between the early "Viking" expeditions and Columbus' one that made the latter succeed where the former failed?
11. Avishi Gupta demonstrates how the conditions of female labor at Lowell mills enabled the emergence of a double class consciousness among the women workers. What were those material conditions and how did they connect to each of the class consciousness that emerged?
12. What were some of the strategies used by Andrew Jackson to expand US territory into Indigenous land?
13. Bennett explains that many considerations were made as to who would compose the enslaved class of people in the transition from temporary servitude to permanent servitude. What considerations were made and why the choice to enslave Africans exclusively was made?
14. How did the emergence of scientific racism change the way race was understood in the US?
15. What were the reasons for Irish and Chinese migrants to come to America? How these different conditions in their country of origin shifted their migratory strategy?