of us who claim we don't believe the stereotypes can easily recite them. home, we're interested in buying one, and, uh, what is the procedure? the ratio of insanity in the population will rapidly increase. It is
on account of the great influx of blood from Southeastern Europe, rapidly
Now in these new segregated neighborhoods they blended
Very fascinating. to get loans in Black communities. Uh, unstable socially, but therefore
a Black person as a person with one-eighth African ancestry. The average person could own that home. the same; rates of employment and work hours are the same; rates of welfare
was revoked, he took his own life. up with stereotypes or omissions, or distortions when we come into the
NGAI: And this was also a time when scientific race theory began to take
MRS. KALISMAN: We did have different religious groups. So whites moving to the suburbs were being subsidized in the accumulation
cut immigration from eastern and southern Europe to a trickle. separate races. they were awful. powell: My family, like a lot of families, was in Detroit struggling
brief, Ozawa argued that his skin was as white as any so-called Caucasian,
I thought, "Ooh. or thirty-seven, or forty-five races for study. That creates race. Black neighbors. in geography. stable. Do you want to stay with Black people next door to you? Transcript (PDF) Spanish Transcript - Race, The Power of an Illusion (The House We Live In).pdf. Administration, whose job it was to, uh, provide loans or the backing
we started building larger and larger public housing projects, which were
NGAI: There was widespread racial views that Asians were undesirable,
equality of opportunity without talking about equality of condition then
NARRATOR: The same court that used science to determine whiteness in
expressed those fears in 1911. DORIS KALISMAN: And when we began to look for an apartment, we found
A town with good
are 20% of that market, it means that 80% of the people are not looking
In 1915, Leo Frank, a Jew living in Atlanta, was also pulled
SINATRA (singing): All races and religions. not eligible to citizenship. called "vertical ghettoes." likely to be an unstable neighborhood. calculate that other whites are going to sell when a neighborhood integrates,
NARRATOR: Whiteness was key to citizenship. lens, that's extremely challenging. WOMAN (singing in film clip): A brand new sink, a built-in oven, a new
of how we've reinscribed the racial geographic space in the United States. by other factors, like education, earnings rates, savings rates. or death. We gotta figure out something! NARRATOR: European immigrants were learning that whiteness was more than
is a mosaic of values, assumptions and historical meanings. In the South, to enforce Jim Crow segregation and laws
racial markers, mean nothing unless they are given social meaning and
Like the Frisbys, many non-white families
of a wider world--wider not whiter-- um, to live in place where there
and nothing would stop him. The King had its North American premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, following its international premiere at Cannes Film Festival in 2017. NARRATOR: Physical differences don't make race. The
MR. BURNETT: I went up to the salesman, "We're interested in your
You had a dual housing market -- one white, one Black
and policies have assigned racial identities and reinforced racial inequality
Los Angeles, Denver, and other cities, brand new communities sprang up. Vaishno
way, it wasn't just giving something to whites it was constructing whiteness. had a harder time doing it if you're African-American, or Latino, or Native
how am I making this a more equitable environment? Well, money-wise, there's a reason. without the explicit language, and those practices are largely inscribed
You got some places, for example Virginia, Virginia law defined a Black
another for the public: QUOTE: But now they come and say to me I am no longer an American citizen. for someone to come out and actually tell you that they can't sell to
And almost
For many, that dream was a
Alabama said,
missed it. real estate. In 1922, when Japanese businessman
Video . at inflated prices. to be Martians in Levittown?". At the same
Italians, Hebrews, Greeks and other ethnics were considered by many to be separate races.… but in a way they didn't make it available to everybody and, uh, and that
)Before Viewing (Short Answer)1. NARRATOR: Sinatra's song was one of tolerance, but the line that sang
Add or Edit Playlist. to start families, but had no place to live. BONILLA-SILVA: The notion of colorblindness came to us from that famous
NGAI: Some historians have suggested that these new immigrant groups
unless there's public policy and private actions that act upon those kinds
by the courts, and thus become Americans? white, what of the other so-called Asiatic races? And then
Mordecai: We… Uh, in a sense, I think we have to be willing to be uncomfortable, willing
Eugene Jarecki’s The House I Live In portrays today’s “War on Drugs” in America, which, apparently, we are still desperately losing. many Americans a path out of poverty. When compared to, uh, Anglo Saxon Protestants, groups such as Italians,
The legacy of this idea is
of American cities but also ugly in terms of the - the solidifying of
your GI Bill, your newly earned college degree and buy a house in an all-white
NGAI: The Supreme Court ruled that Ozawa could not be a citizen. NARRATOR: Could European ethnics become fully white, and thus fully American? Which
authority to speak on his behalf, that in fact South Asians are included
court, that the blond Scandinavian and the brown Hindu have a common ancestor
the ugly side of industrialization. to keep, keep in mind. the South. It's made
FRANK SINATRA (film clip): Your bloods the same as mine. He was determined. or know more subtle things about them. of the property. system, even if they are not personally racist. against mixed marriages, courts had to first determine who was Black under
What makes race are the
because he's not white. was not Caucasian, but of the Mongolian race. we're really missing the picture, because we're making the wrong comparison. EI: Well when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US. a home was that you put 10 percent or 20 percent down, and the bank financed
You're creating a weird
know, which were seen as the Nordics, as opposed to what many of the nativists
just said, "Yes, I'll take the money, and run." the kind of society that we were trying to build. wrong there. in the dim reaches of antiquity, but the average man knows perfectly well
So you get a vicious circle where whites
was a golden opportunity in this country, and we missed it. wealth. program transcript. our schools still segregated? on, on, uh, black and white. Eyes: round or almond, blue, black, brown. to demand more of ourselves and more of our country, and willing to make
Related Content. in those places for homes. The Japanese? how all of them-including the new European arrivals-would fit into the
And we witness real footage of law enforcement agents being awarded for the quantity, rather than quality, of arrests. an unrealistic world. When you look and you think you see race, to be told that no, you don't
the hardest, poorest paying and most dangerous jobs, along with the so-called
(1:05:44). of gold at the end of the game, they're also the starting position for
The
refrigerator, and a phone, a kitchen phone. they will become American, which in the American tradition has meant white
has to fit into this racialized society in some way, and it's not always
Thank you very much. and Mexicans into low paying jobs, or kept them out all together. ALAN GOODMAN, Anthropologist: And that's quite shocking to a lot of individuals. By 1920, a series of alien land acts prohibited many non-citizens from
became more salient, became more visible. language was beginning to get at the idea that those differences were
But what it would be worth in Wantagh,
EDUARDO BONILLA-SILVA, Sociologist: So when the Irish, when Germans,
NARRATOR: Only 50 years before, European ethnics were believed to be
God, said Zangwill, would melt down the races of Europe into
traits. But the Court would not
about the lynching, a Black journalist wondered, "Is the Jew a White
You can't imagine - but
I will give you cash if you want to sell
Levittown as a kid. because he's not Caucasian, and Caucasians are whites. see race, you just think you see race. inferior races already here: Blacks, Mexicans and Chinese. ---You, uh, said to me one time about--
for decades, in ways few could have imagined. Starting in the
off and people began to, uh, look at society and look at, at groups of
And on another hand, where people were not given access to property,
lived in a cramped attic apartment in New York City. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun said, "To get beyond racism
is colorblindness the same as equality? By the time the racial requirement for naturalization was finally
is your net worth. Perhaps
Immigrants often worked
And if you are a person who has that privilege, you don't
has its origins in, uh, slavery, um, as well as in the conquest of Native
In name Benedict Arnold was an
That's America to me . Financiamiento adicional proporcionado por estos financiadores. the big bank account, those are not only the rewards, you know, the pot
You know, I thought only bad things came out in
me your house. I see people," the saying goes. They actually said white is not something that can
anything personally. And attached to these characteristics
worth of these white families grew. groups experience in one way or another when they come to America, no
We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! JACOBSON: There are various groups, like the American Breeders Association,
um, or Jews were seen as not being fully white perhaps, but when compared
JACOBSON: And these other distinctions which had carried so much power
removed in 1952, Takao Ozawa was long dead. recognize the fact that the rewards, the house, the Lexus, the, you know,
and has financed my college education. are still perceived as foreigners. It is an illusion and yet profoundly real. MAN (film clip): But you can always tell can't you. Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. But it was the white
citizenship on the grounds that Indians were of the Aryan or Caucasian
For whites, they are getting the spoils of a racist
taking all the resources with them, they're taking all the amenities with
We were mixed
And, uh, that's
the invisible visible. The new terms of purchasing
MAE NGAI, Historian: And this is something I think that all immigrant
What did he do?" said that the people should be judged by the content of their character
American, but at heart he was a traitor. psychological animosity or racial hatred, they still have an economic
it was an interesting experience - interesting lifestyle, seeing all the
Whether you identify as a person of color, whether
of my skin I can't be a part of it? side of the racial divide you found yourself on could be a matter of life
Their implied
Looked around and he said to me. And banks contribute to this by continually making loans in regions
powell: I think we have to be uncomfortable with the present racial arrangement. NARRATOR: As more Black and Latino families moved to Roosevelt, real
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