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Handout 1,2, & 3

• Anglo Conformity - Tendency of immigrants to lose much of their native cultural heritage and conform substantially to the core Anglo-Protestant culture of the United States.

• Old Immigration

o Irish and german

o Northern Europeans

• New Immigration – Gold rush by the Chinese it’s mainly on the west coast

o Segregated

• Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 – these are lynching’s, the act was nationally even though they were used in California. Segregation to the Chinese people.

• Immigration act of 1917 – southern and eastern Europeans. They had to pass a literacy test 8% tax. Most of the people were illiterate.

• Americanization programs – didn’t really work

• National origins formula and immigration act 1924 – only people qualified for naturalized citizenship. “you have to be white”

o Asians did not come in 1924-1948

o Mexicans were allowed in because they are Caucasian

• Melting pot

o Fredrick Jackson turner & the frontier thesis

▪ The foundation of the pot is anglo-saxen culture, “co-exist”

• Cultural pluralism – “multiculturalism

o Jane adams – social worker, she worked with the poor European immigrants

o Horace kallen- opposed any over-simplification of philosophical and vital problems

▪ Denying complications and difficulties is to multiply them, as much as to deny reality to evil would aggravate evil

▪ Argued that cultural diversity and national pride were compatible with each other, and that ethnic diversity and a respect for ethnic and racial differences strengthened America

o Internal colonialism – notion of structural political and economic inequalities between regions within a nation state

o Conflict theory – based upon the view of the fundamental causes of crime are the social and economic forces operating within society.

Handouts 4 & 5

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