I agree with the lecturer’s main argument about race and space being constructed, how the infracstructural growth led to this social consequence, and also how these social consequences were long lasting and affected the development of Los Angeles. Water also plays a very important aspect to the development of Los. Angeles. It led to irrigation and sewer systems. .Having water gave people a better quality and new ideas of life. Although it is very important, it has led to social consequence. Since the Chinese and Mexican Californians worked on the sewers and irrigation systems, they also faced anti Chinese and anti Mexican laws due to constructivism. Then there was the municipal improvement plan of 1857 when people from the United States passed
The Burlingame Treaty and the Chinese Exclusion Act were documents during the 1800s and led to the start of a racist composition. Prodigious amounts of Chinese laborers came to the United States, in 1848, after the discovery of gold in California. The Burlingame Treaty was set in place to delay the entry of Chinese labor, but the document did not to ban Chinese. It had been revised in 1880 and gave the Chinese the protection they needed in order to come to the U.S. The Chinese Exclusion Acts were federal laws put into place to impede Chinese immigrants from coming into the United States.
a. Race appears because people’s identities are assigned through it. This is a means of distinguishing a group and a means of control over it. The essence of society is that a small number of people exploit most people in the name of the development of human civilization, and race is the most powerful political weapon for them. b. Social construction is something or an event that is a meaningful to the society, it reveals how the social is constructed and how people are participating in it. c. Money is a kind of social construction, people accept the value of money and consider them as an essential part of the society.
“By 1850, [California]… had become the world’s most racially and diverse city” (Foner 478). Even to this day, California seems to have one of the most diverse populations of the country. Although, all of these different racial groups, all looking and competing for the same thing, tensions were bound to rise. And they did. Although California may have seemed like a land of opportunity for all, discrimination of races that were not white was present in the territory just as much as anywhere else in the nation.
California was born in the middle of many issues of conflict. Crisis over slavery, political legitimacy, and conflict over land, labor, race and ethnicity ( Competing Vision 132 ).During the mid 1800’s California saw many transformations, some positive some negative. There was a slow reservations development for Indians, but a better established land ownership. With certain political figures, who rallied to remove laws, which discriminated against African Americans and rather high religious tolerance, California was taking a distinct shape.
One of the biggest incidences in the US was immigration. There was an immense growth within the urban population due to the rise of cities quickly becoming flooded with immigrants and workers from every corner of the country. However, living in a city did not meet high expectations. In the other hand, it was place with such poor qualities. The cities were overcrowded, lacked proper sanitation as well as housing.
After the Mexican cession many settlers came to California. Some were looking for gold or freedom. They were white Americans, slaves from the south, Chinese, and the Mexicans and Indians that were already on the land. The white Americans were looking for gold. Slaves from the south were looking for freedom.
In 1850, California's first legislature passed the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians. This wrote even more unreasonable laws into place. Indians could not testify against white men and white men were able to take control over the Indian children. It was also illegal to see or give alcohol to any Indians. If an indian was convicted of a crime or stealing anything valuable, he or she would receive a violent punishment and a fine.
People like foreigners and women were presented with challenges on their journey. In fact, in 1882 the campaign to restrict immigration created the federal Chinese Exclusion Act, which stopped the Chinese from migrating for 10 years. This prevented the Chinese from achieving the American Dream for that time period. Also, the government placed a tax on immigrant mining, charging them $500 a month, in this time (Maranzani). Women also had a difficult time during the Gold Rush.
Chinese immigrants came to the U.S for the california gold rush, this event provided many jobs, hope for a good future, and hope to give a good life to their families. Nativists
The landscape, trams, and distinctive wooden mansions give the city a unique charm. San Francisco is an outstanding representative of the physical geography. The essay aims to investigate the history of the region, the general features of four spheres of physical geography in San Francisco, and forms the possible representation of the future of the area. History
The fight to end segregation and racism has been going on since the beginning of time. Racism is one of the biggest problems in the US. It has gone from slavery, to forced segregation, and nowadays to just being looked at differently. Many people of color are sick of this treatment and are now wanting segregated dorms at colleges. Some may still see this as segregation but it was requested not forced.
Americans were able to make thousands of dollars off of gold and immagrants and foreigners from all over the world came to California. Citizens became richer and all different cultures learned to
Among anthropologists it has become increasingly clear that the concept of race having a biological basis is fundamentally flawed. There a number of flaws with this concept of race. One issue is that features attributed to race, such as skin color, very across the globe in a clinal fashion rather than in uniform groups. Another issue is that there is more in-group variation within races than there is variation between races. Finally, human variation is non-concordant.
Mexican-Americans, whether they were immigrants to the United States or native born were discriminated within their communities. Mexican-Americans who were native born weren’t accepted in Mexico because they were seen as outsiders, those native to California were seen as outsiders because they were seen as Mexican.
Overcrowding has been an issue for decades; however, due to growing population sizes, its negative social consequences are progressively worsening. Overcrowding is most commonly seen in cities and other urban developments. Cities attract people for many different reasons. As Steven E. Barkan, a professor in Sociology at the University of Maine, explains, cities provide it all: entertainment, cultural attractions, and employment opportunities (Barkan, 2012). Similarly, living in a city allows for easy access to public transportation, businesses, and other necessities.