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Institutional Racism |
theconstruct which represents racism not as the expression and practice of racistindividuals, but as a fundamental part of the entire social system in which welive |
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Three characteristics ofinstitutional racism |
systemic,shapes everyday social relations, def. of race constantly changes |
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Bell Hooks: white supremacy |
thesystem of race-based biases we live within, inclusive of everyone |
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white supremacists |
whiteswho say they are beyond racial issues |
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kind of person whoperpetuate white supremacy |
peoplewho believe that racism doesn’t exist |
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Brainwashed into thinking white is better |
a black female with straighthair |
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whitepeople do not see black women as authority |
What White people think when being forced to listen to a black woman |
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§ theythink these countries exist only to enhance white adventure |
white college students whogo to Africa to help black people |
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theyfeel they need to do their active unlearningof white-supremacist thinking because they don’t have many relationships withpeople of color. |
white people who adoptblack kids |
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Perspective |
subjective knowledge production which gives privilege and advantage to theproducers of that knowledge |
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Legislation of Morality/Government |
underlying cause/source of institutional racism |
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Fallacy of Composition |
belief that what istrue of a part is true of the whole. |
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Zero Sum Fallacy |
richgain money at expense of the poor |
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Chess pieces fallacy |
Bywriting a law, people can be controlled |
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False, People cannot sell their own labor |
The employment problem faced by youths and others is that there are simply no jobs available |
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Women or Neither |
Who makes more? |
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They took lower paying jobs |
In Britain, women earn 17%less than men. Why |
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At the start of their careers |
At what point in life arethe wages of men and women closest? |
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Not get Married |
If women wanted to make asmuch or more than men, without laws, what would they have to do? |
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Astime goes on, wives tend to give up their job to further their husbands career,which is not always a bad thing |
Explain why 33% of marriedwomen earned more than their husbands between ages 25-34, but only 10% or womenearned more than their husbands when they are 65 and older. |
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Infinite |
Conclusion and fact changewith 2 racializations; explain how many more potential changes there can be |
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competitionfor labor will protect the wages of both men and women |
In a sexist society whereone could not legislate morality, explain how the market would resolve anyresulting sexism in wages |
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It’sa form of price control which is inflexible to changes in the labor andbusiness markett--> |
Explain what happens if thegov’t sets women’s wages; what is this called |
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Black doctors: the Flexnorreport of 1910 |
soughtto eliminate poor quality medical training by standardizing medical schoolstandards and education which shut down all ten African American medicalschools in the country |
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King of the Darkies |
ablack entrepreneur (lumber merchant) who grossed $100,000 annually in sales,from Philly |
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The reason given by whites as to why blacks worked for lower wages |
they can afford to offer their labor for cheaper since they “just emerged from the state of barbarism |
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Irish immigrants |
Competition for everyoneeven blacks and ex-slaves; explain who replaced the black worker C |
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black waiters tricked white waiters into going on strikeand then only the best white waiters were kept and the rest were replaced withblacks |
Explain how black waiterstricked white waiters into a situation where mostly black waiters were hiredS |
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No |
Does the Free market care about skin color |
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Barrier to entry |
: licensing laws that targetthe working poor and serves to limit entry into certain areas of the market inorder to cut down on competition |
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Constructive instability |
instabilitycreated through innovation not regression |
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Occupy Wall Street 99% |
Want the money at the top to be redistributed to the bottom 99 % |
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Occupy Wall Street 2% |
Want to take the place of the current 1% and become the new super wealthy |
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Blackmarket |
Business Transactions without gov't protection. |