I wrote a paper once that delved into the history of how racism was constructed as a way to make slavery lifelong instead of a term of indenture, and there was so much wild shit I learned. Like, if there was a white woman who was an indentured servant, if she cohabitated with an enslaved African, then her term would become lifelong too, and her children would be born enslaved. There was so much more, but that was a long time ago and I've forgotten a lot.
The intersection of racism and sexism has long roots in America.
For the Japanese American concentration camps, white women married to Japanese American men were locked up in camps as well, but Japanese American wives of white men were allowed to walk free. But these things are never taught due to the (rightful) institutional fear that the majority of white women will find out where their true class interests lie.
They're still doing it. France has some law against wearing a scarf on your head because covering your hair is a religious symbol and France is a very serious nation. So they cops out harassing Muslim women all the time. I think they also banned full coverage swim suits. : p
"Slavery was just the way things were! Everyone accepted it! People didn't do stuff like compare the worst thing they can imagine to being enslaved, let alone advocate for abolition!"
Literally invented racism
I wrote a paper once that delved into the history of how racism was constructed as a way to make slavery lifelong instead of a term of indenture, and there was so much wild shit I learned. Like, if there was a white woman who was an indentured servant, if she cohabitated with an enslaved African, then her term would become lifelong too, and her children would be born enslaved. There was so much more, but that was a long time ago and I've forgotten a lot.
The intersection of racism and sexism has long roots in America.
For the Japanese American concentration camps, white women married to Japanese American men were locked up in camps as well, but Japanese American wives of white men were allowed to walk free. But these things are never taught due to the (rightful) institutional fear that the majority of white women will find out where their true class interests lie.
Treating certain races like property
Treating women like property
There's also the classic imperial propaganda of "saving women from evil male savages" when bombing other nations
America famously cares about women's rights, especially in the area of healthcare
The French empire used head coverings imposed upon women as part of their argument for why they were needed to civilize the levant
They're still doing it. France has some law against wearing a scarf on your head because covering your hair is a religious symbol and France is a very serious nation. So they cops out harassing Muslim women all the time. I think they also banned full coverage swim suits. : p
"Slavery was just the way things were! Everyone accepted it! People didn't do stuff like compare the worst thing they can imagine to being enslaved, let alone advocate for abolition!"