Racial_Faultlines

Racial Faultlines Brief #5-“Racial Faultlines “ The article, Racial Faultlines by Tomas Almaguer, talks about the fact that people experience a variety of different “racialized relationships” in California. Due to a higher multiracial population where more Mexican, Indian, Chinese and Japanese populations live in the state, California had a much less binary racial mix than most areas. In many places, racial relationships are more binary, or black and white. Almaguer discusses how these different peoples are viewed within the social strata of the state using examples of how Mexican Americans are treated differently that Native Americans, although both races are dark complexioned, etc. He discusses how the different cultures were dominated by “whites” and how racial order and class hierarchy was determined by skin color and social conception. I really enjoyed the point that the author made when social, racial, people, mexican, different, americans, treated, state, relationships, really, often, indigenous, indian, faultlines, discusses, dark, considered, class, california, both, binary, although, almaguer, within, whites, white, while, ways, way, viewed, variety, using, unfamiliar, type, treatment, totally