Ethnic Studies: Introduction to Race and Ethnicity 1

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Answer at least three of the following questions in 5 pages minimum, 9 pages maximum:
1. What are the central tenets and critiques of internal colonialism, black pessimism, and black and Latino Marxism? (Gutierrez, Sexton, Dawson)
2. What is the long 16th Century and what are the central differences between Spanish and Anglo-American settler colonial projects according to Gerald Horne. (Long 16h century, Religion, Race)
3. How did the Spanish colonization of California Native lands give rise to the first forms of incarceration in California according to the book City of Inmates? (Catholicism, Mission System, enclosure of Native lands)

4. What is primitive accumulation and how did this process lead to the development of Anglo-American colonization of the Southwest and the development of American capitalism, imperialism, and eugenics as a leading ideology in the long 19th Century? (Phases of capitalist development, Mexicans, California Genocide, Chinese Exclusion, Eugenics, Poor Whites)

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The theory of internal colonialism emanated from the desire to seek radical Black solutions for the hopelessness and poverty in urban areas. Minorities in the United States perceived this theory as having the potential to liberate them from the political challenges they were dealing with (Gutiérrez, 2). This is because the theory allowed them to understand the reasons for their territorial concentration, external administration, spatial segregation, the disparity between their legal citizenship and de facto second-class standing, their brutalization by the police, and the harmful impact of racism in their lives (Gutiérrez, 2). Furthermore, the theory sought to drive explanations about racism in the United States within psychic structures.

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