Stacey Smith's Arguments on the Ways Labor and Citizenship was Racialized in California

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What does Stacy Smith argue about the ways labor and citizenship was racialized in California? How does her work offer an extended analysis of themes from lecture? Provide at least two examples from the text. Include parenthetical citations.
Stacy Smith argues that labor and citizenship were racialized in California. They were deeply inflected by gender, race, skin color, culture, and citizenship. In particular, Anglo legislators argued whether black and Chinese workers were degraded sales or free men. A distinctive frontier was found in California due to gold discoveries that had sent many miners to the region (Turner, 1893). The primary reason that citizenship and labor were racialized was to control employees who worked under harsh conditions. Stacy’s work provides an extended analysis of the themes of inequality, racism, and slavery. The slaveholders from the South facilitated cooperation with the Western States (Turner, 1893). African American and Chinese workers provided cheap labor, and plantation owners controlled them by ensuring that they did not get citizenship. As a result, they were discriminated against by others due to their racial and cultural differences and confined to forced labor.
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