Race & Ethnicity Exam 3

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Median

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- Middle value in a distribution

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Mean

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- Average value in a distribution

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Interaction effect

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- when an effect of an Independent variable on a dependent variable is different on different levels of a third variable.

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Sharon Hill Collins

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- author of: Black Feminist Thought, 1991

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Why was the Civil Rights Movement successful?

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1. It was only about civil rights, (everyone having the same constitutional rights)
   
2. Non-violent
   
3. The movement was televised
   
4. Very organized, specific of action, had trained leaders*

- Leaders had to be trained how to respond without violence

- Followed the philosophy- “you love the people who hate you”

- “Apage” love- love for your fellow human beings

5. Northern white liberals

- Whites from the north

- Gave donations to civil rights movements

- Had political influence

6. Emerging African Nations

7. Soviet Union (USSR)

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Atlantic Slave-trade (European Slave trade)

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Europe was able to enslave Africans by:

- The division of African Culture (diverse African Geography)

- The help of other Africans

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what allowed for slavery?

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• the religious morals of europeans allowed for slavery because the bible never said anything about “sub-humans”
• In order to enslave people, you had to dehumanize them

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John Hope Franklin

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Author of the book: From Slavery to Freedom (1940’s,2010)

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Slavery in the USA

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• Slavery varied between rural and urban areas
• Approximately 10% of the southern black population was free
• Slaves had to follow strict rules and behavior guidelines
  

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Urban slaves

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• had a different kind of relationship with their owner compared to rural slaves
• Could purchase their money (buying their freedom)
• More likely to come in contact with a free black person
  

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Free black person

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= the greatest threat to the institution of slavery

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William Julius Wilson (sociologist)

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• Macro-sociologist who focused on the social structure
• Most prominent sociologist
  
• Became famous for the book: The Declining Significance of Race, (1978,1990, 2012)

- Very powerful and influential book

• “In contemporary America, class had superseded race in determining the lifestyles / life chances of African Americans.”
  

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Two black categories according to Wilson:

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1. Black middle class
   
2. Disadvantaged

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Black middle class

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• College Educated
• Stable jobs
• Benefited most from the CRM (middle class movement) among other blacks
• Articulated the values of the black middle class
  

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Disadvantaged class

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• Low levels of education
• Chronically unemployed/underemployed (part-time work, more education than work).
• Locked out of the mainstream of American life.
  

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The Truly Disadvantaged

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by William Julius Wilson

• American industrial economy changed from heavy manufacturing to information systems
  

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Social dislocation

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- the displacement of workers from the labor force. Primarily impacted blue collar workers.

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Compositional effects

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• and event / circumstance that is the result of having a disproportionate # of people in a given category.

- Most black people are blue collar, working class.

- The change in the american industrial economy disproportionately hurt the blue collar class.

- Social dislocation disproportionately hurt the black class.

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Capital mobility

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- when companies shut down factories and move over seas to make more money.

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Social isolation

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- The circumstance that resulted from the exodus of the black middle class from the traditionally black communities.

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Deep poverty

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- neighborhoods where the poverty level is 40% and up the

- medial level impacts the macro level

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Marriageable man

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- according to Wilson, this is a man with a job.

- A non-marriageable man will eventually become poor.

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Poverty leads to

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- a female-headed household

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Poverty rate for blacks

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- is 3x that of whites

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Black community development

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• the establishment and perpetuation of institutions to serve the interest of the black population
  

- Entails institution building

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Community

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- the number of people with a sheer institution

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Black Organizational Autonomy (BOA) Model, 1992

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- Derrick Horton, Central Arkansas

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BOA model:

Viable black communities have-

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• Economic Autonomy (being independent of outside sources)
• Indigenous info system (collecting your own data)
• Cultural independence (emphasis on black history and culture)
• Socially inclusive leadership (leadership has to cut across classes)
• Emphasis on black female leadership
  

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Two ways of thinking about demography:

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1. Narrow and Descriptive: formal demography
2. Broad and Analytical: population studies
   

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1. Narrow and Descriptive: formal demography

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• Size (# of elements in a population)
• Distribution (geographic arrangement of a population)
• Structure (age/sex distributions)
• Change (increase or decrease in population over 2 or more points in time)

- Fertility (births)

- Mortality (deaths)

- Migration (movement)--> easiest and most dynamic

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2. Broad and Analytical: population studies

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• Focuses on the relationships between demographic variables and other variables of scientific interest

EX:Political demography, Geographic demography, and Business demography

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Social demography

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- the relationship between sociological and demographical variables