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Sen. Blanche K. Bruce, Frederick
Douglass and Sen. Hiram Revels, from left (Image/Library of Congress)
Race and its ideology has been a foundation that has helped build
present-day America. In 18th century America, while building
the newfound land there was an increase in demand for labor. Africa was known
for its farms, and cattle-breeders, and industries, which were exactly what
Europeans needed. The impact of the amount of slaves imported and the
development brought four
waves of immigration. Race had to establish the identity of each group in America.
With each wave of migration the European race had to be dissected further which
narrows its race more specifically. Those who came from Africa, their race was
labeled as African or “slave” and not dissected
further. Through the African Slave trade, “slaves” came from all different
parts of Arica yet their race identifies with skin color.
Slavery
had already existed in Africa before Europeans came to get the help they needed
for the vast amount of labor in America. In Africa, people where enslaved
through war or crime. Once discovered the Europeans could supply weapons the
trades were more inclined to trade those enslaved to Europeans. This African
diaspora causes the identity of “slaves” to be lost. Those enslaved
that were brought to America as property, had to be identified from the new
migrants to America. The most distinguishable difference was the color of ones
skin. Laws were emplaced to protect peoples “property” whom were all black. In 1662, Virginia legalized
enslavement of black Africans.
Laws
enforce to the public, a rule to be upheld by the community. They create a
lifestyle and are created to protect the community. If a law is passed it is
expected that the community adhere to it. Laws are not easy to remove. As time
passes laws establish a culture. Laws are tweaked and new laws are then
creating molding the culture further.
America
refines its laws further and further due to either being more specific or in
reaction to revolts and war. As time passes the color of ones skin still
identifies one from Africa, an African who was brought to America for labor.
The association of ones color to identify a race becomes a norm.
The
culture that the laws created took around 300 years of development, to undo and
300 years of development in a society is going to take time. Race has persisted
because of the laws passed. Even after slavery was abolished in America the
culture that was created lived. Groups mix and created new races and
identities. Each new person born, no matter what group they identify with still
a human nonetheless.
Work Cited:
Alyson
Cole. (2015). Indiana Magazine of History, 111(2),
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http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5378/indimagahist.111.2.0211 doi:1
FREY, W.
(2015). Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking
America. Brookings Institution Press. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt6wpc40
Omi, M. (2007, January).
Rethinking the Language of Race and Racism. Asian American
Law Journal, 8(7), 1-9. Retrieved from
http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=aalj
Smeadley, A. (2003). Origin
of the Idea of Race. Retrieved October 01, 2016,
from http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-02-09.htm
Waves of Immigration.
Retrieved October 01, 2016,
from https://www.preceden.com/timelines/29989-waves-of-immigration-in-america
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