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Ford's Sociological Department and Its Emphasis on "Clean Living" (And

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Ford's Sociological Department and its emphasis on "clean living" (and careful elimination of jazz music among the employees it checked up on) is an example of the organization of race because ______.


A) many of the Ford workers came from the South, and northern employees were skeptical of Southerners' habits of cleanliness and morality (questioning the politics and influences of the Civil War)
B) Henry Ford was deeply religious and thought that jazz music corroded the souls of the workers who listened to it (encouraging workers to adopt white Protestantism)
C) jazz music was long associated with slave traditions and African-American musical roots, and seen as threatening (perceiving a threat to the white social order through widespread jazz)
D) Henry Ford was concerned with making sure that members of the immigrant population would be in line with the corporate, political, also social values of the time (a form of systematic control)

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