1. Explain the Noel Hypothesis: (a) What sorts of things does it try to explain, (b) How does it explain them? (Text, lecture)
A) The Noel hypothesis states: if two or more groups come together in a contact situation characterized by ethnocentrism, competition, and a differential in power, then some form of racial or ethnic stratification with result. The Noel hypothesis helps explain why colonists enslaved black Africans instead of white indentured servants of Native Americans. a. All three groups were the objects of ethnocentric feelings on the part of the elite groups that dominated colonial society. b. Competition between existed between colonists and all three groups. c. Native American tribes were well organized and able to resist colonist's attacks. White indentured servants were preferred over black indentured servants and this gave them bargaining power. Africans, however, had become indentured by force and coercion who had no bargaining power.......
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