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According to the textbook, this theory relies heavily on the earlier work of the great thinker Karl Marx.
Marvin Harris's theory of cultural materialism argues that material conditions, including technology, determine patterns of social organization, including religious principles.
Cultural Materialism studies the relationship between the economic aspects of production and the values, beliefs, in a society. Cultural Materialism is heavily influenced by the works of Karl Marx. Marvin Harris spread the concept of Cultural Materialism in his book "The Rise of Anthropological Theory" of 1968. He uses the Marxist theory of base and superstructure to elaborate a theory of cultural products and its influence on modern society.
In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham. Birmingham in 1963 was a hard place for blacks to live in.
They got some land from the Louisiana Purchase and other land they got from Mexico through the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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I believe he means that from slavery they gradually got their way to freedom.
It was a long hard walk that they didn't deserve they were taken from their home country and sold for free labor. So he is also saying that the thing that is away from slavery that they all yearn for.
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Lynching is another term for death by being hung
