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Title: 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

3
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

4
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)

5
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

6
Domination of Social Institutions
  • Political System
  • Legal System (including law enforcement)
  • Economic System (including exclusion of some)
  • Language
  • Religion
  • Education
  • Knowledge Producing Institutions

7
Invention of Whiteness
  • Justification of Exploitation
  • Other-ness, Alterity
  • Integrated Theories of Oppression

8
Historical Manifestations of Power
  • Nativism
  • Anti
  • Immigrant
  • Catholic
  • Black
  • Native
  • Exclusionary Immigration Policies
  • Social Closure
  • Hate Groups
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