His following attracted mostly upper class and intellectual blacks. He concentrated on the “talented tenth”, the most talented and intelligent African Americans. This alienated poorer blacks, who turned instead to Marcus Garvey. Garvey grew up in an impoverished Jamaican community. After minimal schooling, he traveled around Latin America and eventually ended up in England.
The Massachusetts Bay colony and Virginia colony had an economic structure that differed in several ways. First, how the slaves were used in contrasting ways in the Massachusetts Bay and Virginia to benefit the revenue of recourses, and the differences in time of abolishment of slavery over the proceeding centuries. With the use of indentured servants in Virginia dwindling, slaves became the priority choice for labor work on plantations, toiling in fields with exhausting work and extremely high mortality rates; while on the other hand, slaves in the North and Massachusetts Bay had a much easier lifestyle consisting of house work and light farming. Secondly, because of the rocky and more or less inhospitable landscape for large scale farming in the Massachusetts Bay area, the main sources of income revolved around fishing, furs, and shipbuilding, small crop farming was viable as
Diversity Issues in Criminal Justice 2600.001 Social Construction is a norm that is created by society to persuade females and males into what occupations, groups, accessories, and ways of lifestyle that are accepted and what is not accepted by society making them outcasts. There are also standard implications for racial groups that divide race into perspective groups as well. Another contributing factor is class, people from a certain class level stay within their group and it is difficult to overcome the social norm and ascend the ladder of the classes. Our analysis of diversity issues created by the social norm of the people was in the aspects of the clothing, media, occupations, athletics and literature. There is an implied social
We then begin to learn how society and its people can have a major impact on our lives. This paper will discuss the novel, The Other Wes Moore, describe the sociological perspectives used in sociology and analyze excerpts from the book using each of the three major sociological perspectives. According to Henslin (2012), social location is described as the corners in life that people occupy because of where they are located in a society. In other words social location considers how jobs, income, education, gender, race-ethnicity, and age affect people’s ideas and behavior (Henslin, 2012). The author Wes Moore was a black male that lived in Baltimore as a young child but moved to The Bronx when he was a little older.
During the end of the eighteenth century African American slaves living on large plantations began creating families and communities within the plantations. In the lower south of the slave states, which were densely populated slave communities, a task system was developed that benefited slaves. This system allowed an African American slave to be assigned a task to complete, once the task was completed on many occasions the slave master treated that worker as if the job was done for the day and didn’t call on him or her to complete another task. In the northern region of the slave states the slave population was much less dense than farther south. Slaves in these northern slave communities were in contact with white Americans far more often than slaves in the lower south, which left the slaves exposed to greater scrutiny to slave
They are interconnected systems of inequality. Matrix of domination Families can be a place to resist inequality Social stratification: structured (socially patterned) inequality Groups are socially defined & treated unequally Class Persons occupying the same relative economic rank form a social class. Striking differences in income; growing gap between top 1/5 & bottom 1/5 Occupation is the most frequently used indicator of class. Determines income, opportunity, lifestyle Cultural explanations of class Each class is viewed as having a distinctive culture. Comparisons between the classes usually turn out to be “deficit” accounts of lower-status families.
For example, in the Americas, the Spanish and Portuguese left a sharp influence on the colonists’ lifestyles. Those that were natively born on the Iberian Peninsula (called the peninsulares) had the highest social status, while those descended from native Iberians (Creoles) were just below them on the social totem pole. Those that were of mixed heritage of any kind, such as mestizos, zambos, or of African/native descent ranked the lowest in the new social order. Because of the forced integration of many of the natives, the social structure changed from their tribal configuration to that of a European arrangement. Likewise, in Africa, the social structure changed as a result of the invading Europeans.
Slavery: “The Peculiar Institution” Slaves were brought to the colonies first as indentured servants then slave traders started capturing slaves from Africa and bring them to the Caribbean. The colonist found slave labor cheap compared to indentured slaves who eventually ended their service. Slavery began in the United States about the 1630’s. During this time the colonial courts and legislatures made Africans property and enslaved to their masters for a life time. The legislature also ruled that slave status would be inherited by their children.
African Americans’ social rights were very limited partially because of the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. These restrictions aided the system of sharecropping, maintained social hierarchy and segregation. Black Codes restrict civil rights for African Americans such as to carry a weapon, vote, getting involving in the court, marry white citizens and travel without permits. The code varied in different
A great number of communities in the 1930’s were constructed by a social class system. The class system ranks citizens of a community according to wealth, appearance, skin color, reputation, etc. It denies the lower class the same opportunities as the higher-class. The class system also does not let the lower class move up in the system. The class system is commonly found in the South because of its history with African-Americans.