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What is the term used to describe the phenomenon of an evolving racial caste system that adapts over time?
What is the term used to describe the phenomenon of an evolving racial caste system that adapts over time?
How did the planter elite reinforce their dominance during the shift from indentured servitude to slavery?
How did the planter elite reinforce their dominance during the shift from indentured servitude to slavery?
What critical compromise in the U.S. Constitution was influenced by the racial caste system?
What critical compromise in the U.S. Constitution was influenced by the racial caste system?
What was the primary form of labor in the early colonial period before slavery became dominant?
What was the primary form of labor in the early colonial period before slavery became dominant?
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What was the belief that formed the basis of the racial caste system that emerged by the mid-1770s?
What was the belief that formed the basis of the racial caste system that emerged by the mid-1770s?
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What was one consequence of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?
What was one consequence of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?
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What role did colonialism play in the development of race as a concept?
What role did colonialism play in the development of race as a concept?
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What was one strategy used by plantation owners to maintain their dominance?
What was one strategy used by plantation owners to maintain their dominance?
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What did the term 'caste' refer to in the historical context of the racial system discussed?
What did the term 'caste' refer to in the historical context of the racial system discussed?
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Study Notes
The New Jim Crow
- Book by Michelle Alexander
- Examines mass incarceration as a modern form of racial caste system in the US
- Argues that the system is a contemporary manifestation of Jim Crow
- Post-Civil Rights Era, despite progress
- Systemic racism is adaptable and continually restructures
- Traces the historical roots of racial caste systems
- Shows how caste systems evolve and adapt in form
The Rebirth of Caste
- The slave was freed, briefly experienced freedom, then returned to a form of slavery
- American racism is adaptable
- Caste systems in the US are sustained by laws
- System of racial hierarchy has adapted to the abolition of slavery and Jim Crow
- Individual achievement does not negate the continued existence of racial caste
The Birth of Slavery
- Concept of race emerged in the recent past (European colonialism)
- Colonial America used indentured servitude before slavery
- Enslavement of Africans justified by race-based ideology and notions of civilization
- Enslavement justified as more expedient method of securing labor
- Elimination of American Indians was a goal concurrent with and preceding the rise of slavery
- Slave labor became a necessity of the growing plantation economy.
- White settlers created a system of racial caste to justify enslaving Africans and exterminating native populations.
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Test your knowledge on Michelle Alexander's book 'The New Jim Crow', which discusses mass incarceration as a modern racial caste system in America. Explore the themes of systemic racism, the historical roots of caste systems, and how these systems have evolved. This quiz will challenge your understanding of racial dynamics in the post-Civil Rights era.
