This serves a people in power the most, as when the Irish-Americans, though viewed as somewhat unruly, were still able to enter and run for public office because of naturalization laws of the late nineteenth century. Once it was established in the United States that there were competing groups out there in the labor force, namely African, Asian, Latin, and Mexican-Americans, it became advantageous to draw a color line to create a large group, those of lighter skin color, to raise and continue to hold the power through numbers and mass alone...
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"Immutable" then would describe the group lacking power enough to break the stereotype. This social construction of race, one that lumps a mass of people into an ambiguous category, becomes an enigma. In order for the group to break free from this, they must acquire a perspective, but their morale is so beaten that they are happy to have any place in the society, so the enigma grows...
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Race/class/Gender They would be considered in today's society as trailer trash. The stereotype of poor white folks was present in Bastard out of Carolina. Anne and Glen did not really have money so it was hard to support the kids...	3 / 824
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The Meanings of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Furthermore, the oppression cycles since whites see it fit to exclude nonwhites due to racial stereotypes (Glenn 11). One can plainly see that "race is sociopolitical rather than biological, but it is nonetheless real (Mills 126)...	4 / 946
Gender and Sexuality These little stereotypes are integrated into our brains, so for example, if we see an attractive member of the opposite sex, we imediatley think, that person I attractive...	2 / 479