Sociology 4949: Outline--Week Six
I. Exam One"
III. Groups
Eventual justice system outcomes
A. Rodney King Case... retrial: 4 officers charged with assault, Stacy King and Lawrence Powell eventually convicted and sentenced to 30 months
B. Reginal Denny Case: Gary Williams pleaded guilty to robbery and assault and received sentence of 3 years; Damien Williams and Earl Bradley charged with attempted murder, mayhem, and assault; hung jury on the first charge; jury found Williams guilty felony mayhem and misdemeanor assault and he was senenced to 10 years; Williams was released on good behavior in 1997 and in 2003 was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a drug dealer. Bradley was found guilty of misdemeanor assault.
IV. Waldinger: "When the Melting Pot Boils Over: The Irish, Jews, Blacks, and Koreans of New York"
"The story of ethnic progress in America can better be thought of as a collective search for mobility, in which the succession of one migrant group after another ensures a continous competitive conflict over resources."
A good fit with "LA is Burning," as well as with Blumer and also with Lieberson (A Piece of the Pie)
A. Major Irish immigration, beginning in the 1840s... moved initially into domestic work (women) and unskilled labor (men)... eventually came to dominate city politics and public sector jobs... Tammany Hall
B. Period of Jewish immigration beginning around 1890... by 1920, 2 million Jews... world's largest Jewish city... initially in the clothing industry and small business... little overlap with Irish... LaGuardia election as mayor in 1933 broke the Tammany Hall political machine and Great Depression made city jobs more attractive to highly educated workers, including Jews, and occasioned Jewish-Irish conflict
C. Major black migration, beginning in early 20th century... by 1920, black population of 150,000... by 1960, 1,088,000... initially confined to domestic service... manufacturing jobs not really open to African Americans until World War II...Jews owned many of the stores in Harlem and this was a major issue in the riot of 1943... by 1950, 25,000 African Americans in garment industry, but Jews retained union leadership... Jews also held many of the teaching positions in Jewish neighborhoods... strength of the private sector in the 1980s drew many whites out of government jobs and by 1990, blacks constituted 25% of the population but held 35% of the jobs in city government...
D. Major Korean immigration beginning with the Immigration Reform Act of 1965... 1st wave highly educated but language and licensing requirements kept them out of the professional jobs... high proportion moved into small business, relying on kin and fellow ethnics for working capital and labor... often providing ethnic products to their fellow Koreans, but also many Korean stores in black neighborhoods (compare with "LA is Burning"), leading to protests and a boycott in 1981
Waldinger's summary: "The ethnic division of labor has been the central division of labor in modern New York City."