European Protestants

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European Protestants
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Major Themes

• General History
• Conditions of Arrival
• Dominant Culture
• Domination of Social Institutions
• Invention of Whiteness
• Historical Manifestations of Power

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General History

• Three largest Ethnic Groups in the US
• 1. Germans
• 2. Irish
• 3. English
• The term Anglo Saxon Protestants also tends to
  include
• Scots Welsh
• Scandinavian
• German
• Voluntary Migration

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Conditions of Arrival

• Colonization Migration
• Includes subordination of the indigenous
• Unlike French and Spanish English 1st to
  establish permanent colonies
• commercial objectives/trading
• new resources and raw materials
• new markets for English goods
• Religious Freedom and Missionization
• Migrant Superordination (not Indigenous
  Superordination p.34)

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Dominant Culture

• Anglo Conformity Assimilation (Gordon)
• Self-Image of Americans
• Unseen or Invisible -Taken for Granted Norms
• School Shootings and Whiteness
• Implications for Power
• Dominant Social Group

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Domination of Social Institutions

• Political System
• Legal System (including law enforcement)
• Economic System (including exclusion of some)
• Language
• Religion
• Education
• Knowledge Producing Institutions

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Invention of Whiteness

• Justification of Exploitation
• Other-ness, Alterity
• Integrated Theories of Oppression

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Historical Manifestations of Power

• Nativism
• Anti
• Immigrant
• Catholic
• Black
• Native
• Exclusionary Immigration Policies
• Social Closure
• Hate Groups