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"How Manifest Destiny Changed the Color of Labor" by John Liu

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St. Martin’s Seeds of Justice and John M. Liu (Professor Emeritus in Depts. of Asian American Studies and Sociology, UC Irvine) Presents “How Manifest Destiny Changes the Color of Labor.”

Manifest Destiny as a doctrine of white expansion ironically required the introduction of more people of color into the United States. The shortage of white labor on the Pacific Coast and Hawaii to build the region’s economy required the serial recruitment of labor from Asia between the 1850s to the 1930s. This was followed by the primary reliance on Mexican labor until the Post-WWII period. Immigrant labor was crucial in the development of mining, transportation, industry, and agriculture. Exploitation of this labor laid not only the foundations of U.S. immigration law but also complicated the binary white/black racial classification, both locally and nationally.

This presentation is the 3rd session in our 2022 Seeds of Justice series, which is part of our Land Based Ministry. The goals of our Land Based Ministry are in keeping with three of the primary mission priorities of the Episcopal Church: racial reconciliation, evangelism, and creation care. As such, in addition to the education series, we will continue to introduce activities and practices that cultivate and enrich both the soil and the community.
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