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Image: The Chinatown Squad in 1905.Photograph courtesy Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco on Nostr: Patrols also disciplined whites. Poor, itinerant, noncompliant men were watched too. ...
Patrols also disciplined whites. Poor, itinerant, noncompliant men were watched too. As Keri Leigh Merritt later shows, whiteness conferred privilege conditionally. Participation in coercion was one condition. By the 1830s, patrol laws expanded. Crisis didn’t invent repression—it exposed how foundational it already was. When secession came, the habits were ready.
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Image: The Chinatown Squad in 1905.Photograph courtesy Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Image: The Chinatown Squad in 1905.Photograph courtesy Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.