RACIAL OPPRESSION IN CALIFORNIA

I.  Introduction

II.  Ideological Basis for Racism

A.  Collective Identity:  White
B.  Cultural Standards
C.  Rationality vs. Savagery
D.  Economic Competition

III.  Race and the First Constitution

A.  A "Free" State
B.  Free Blacks
C.  The Suffrage

IV.  Mexicans

A.  Economic Competition
B.  Lower-class Mexicans
        1.  "Greaser Act" of 1855
C.  Californio Elite
        1.  Political Position
        2.  White American Animosity
        3.  Land Titles

V.   Chinese

A.  Shooting a "Chinaman"
B.  Coming to Gold Mountain
C.  An Indispensable Labor Force
        1.  The Mines
        2.  The Railroads
D.  Cultural Chasm
        1.  San Francisco "Pig-Tail Ordinance"