Racial Prejudice
Racial and Class Prejudice
By: Chong Koi Jun, Sean Woon, Sae Xilong, Lee Kai
Xuan and Matthew Lim
Definitions
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Racial prejudice: A strong discriminatory opinion against a certain race of people when some feel there are people of other skin colours which are in a certain respect “inferior” to themselves; they deserve negative treatment.
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Class prejudice: A strong discriminatory opinion against a certain category of people in society, usually occurring on the pretext of a more “superior race” being in existence
Info on 1930s America
● The great depression had just occurred, and many people were out of jobs.
● Racism was also in abundance throughout ‘Murica’.
Situation of blacks
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Blacks were pushed out of unskilled jobs previously scorned by whites before the depression.
Blacks’ wages were at least 30% below those of white workers, who themselves were barely at the substituent level.
Black workers who tried to organise often found themselves a target of lynch mobs, in both the North and South.
Living conditions were terrible and they lived in extreme poverty but most continued to work as servants, laborers, in dangerous areas, or as steel mill, railroad, coal mine and workers. Some were also peddlers or vendors on the streets.
Black related politics
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In the arena of politics, Franklin Roosevelt was starting to have united policies to allow both races to get a job in recession. However, many conservatives opposed his policies, forcing his party to have to back down from a few initiatives lest they be dropped from office.
Some Whites also blamed Roosevelt for being unloyal, a traitor, and even enacting unconstitutional policies simply because Roosevelt had used rather kind political rhetorics on the blacks. This caused large unhappiness among whites.
Jim Crow Laws
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The Jim Crow laws were implemented to begin a systematic process of racial segregation. The laws were implemented by legislature in the Southern United
States while the same
By: Chong Koi Jun, Sean Woon, Sae Xilong, Lee Kai
Xuan and Matthew Lim
Definitions
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Racial prejudice: A strong discriminatory opinion against a certain race of people when some feel there are people of other skin colours which are in a certain respect “inferior” to themselves; they deserve negative treatment.
●
Class prejudice: A strong discriminatory opinion against a certain category of people in society, usually occurring on the pretext of a more “superior race” being in existence
Info on 1930s America
● The great depression had just occurred, and many people were out of jobs.
● Racism was also in abundance throughout ‘Murica’.
Situation of blacks
●
●
●
●
Blacks were pushed out of unskilled jobs previously scorned by whites before the depression.
Blacks’ wages were at least 30% below those of white workers, who themselves were barely at the substituent level.
Black workers who tried to organise often found themselves a target of lynch mobs, in both the North and South.
Living conditions were terrible and they lived in extreme poverty but most continued to work as servants, laborers, in dangerous areas, or as steel mill, railroad, coal mine and workers. Some were also peddlers or vendors on the streets.
Black related politics
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●
In the arena of politics, Franklin Roosevelt was starting to have united policies to allow both races to get a job in recession. However, many conservatives opposed his policies, forcing his party to have to back down from a few initiatives lest they be dropped from office.
Some Whites also blamed Roosevelt for being unloyal, a traitor, and even enacting unconstitutional policies simply because Roosevelt had used rather kind political rhetorics on the blacks. This caused large unhappiness among whites.
Jim Crow Laws
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The Jim Crow laws were implemented to begin a systematic process of racial segregation. The laws were implemented by legislature in the Southern United
States while the same