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50 Cards in this Set
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What we mean by America's racial "presentation of self" |
all are equal race doesnt matter colorblind fully integrated post-reacial meritocracy |
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Two "original sins" of America |
slavery how Native Americans are treated |
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The purpose of the photo guessing game |
How the lines of ethnicity can be blurred and people can not fit into perfect categories |
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Different schemes for categorizing people by race |
innie or outie? |
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Zinn: factors that made English colonists to America willing to accept enslaving Africans |
slavery in Africa |
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What did colonial elites fear perhaps even more than black rebellion? |
poor white rebellions |
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Does Zinn buy the "national antipathy" argument of why whites enslaved blacks? Why/not |
No it doesnt make logical sense If you see someone as evil you don't wnt anything to do with them, not to control them |
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Myths that Zinn debunks |
1. whites more civilized than Indians 2. Africans uncivilized before contanct with Europeans 3. Africans put up little resistance to slavery 4. Slavery among Africans and white enslavement of Africans were similar |
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cont. Zinn myths |
5. Natural animosity toward blackness and differe explains whites enslavement of blacks 6.whites always united in position of slavery 7. slavery was tangential to success of British colonial project in America 8. Whites enslavement of blacks show that whites are hard working, blacks are lazy 9. slavery was not that profitable |
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Estimated number of people Africa lost due to slavery |
50 million |
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Irony: the rise of racism coincided with rise of what 3 or 4 seemingly "good" developments? |
Spread of Christianity, science, democracy, capitalism |
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Harris: explanation for skin color variation |
need for vitamin D for absorbing calcium need for protection from snburn and melanoma some variations explained by diet not just natural selection, but cultural selection |
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Definition of beauty |
idk |
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Snipps: said race serves as shorthand for: |
designating people as others |
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3 ways of defining race |
1. mystical definition 2. biological defintiion 3. Administrative definition |
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Ozawa, Thind, changing "white" criteria |
a case of trying to gain American citizenship |
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1977 OMB Directive 15 |
revised and attempted to address concerns raised by various groups who objected the rule new categories: whites, blacks, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asians, Hawaiians |
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Year census changed to SELF-resporting on race |
1960 |
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1st census with 1 or more race options |
2000 |
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Barrera: 3 main categories of theories of racial inequality |
1. Biological deficiency 2. Social structure deficiency 3. Cultural deficiency |
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Davis: percent of blacks that have white ancestry? |
75-90% |
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7 ways "mixed race" folk can be positioned |
Hypodescent In-between Bottom of the Ladder Top of the Ladder Highly variable Egalitarian Pluralism Assimilating Minority |
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Gans: What he says the old heirarchy is, what the new hierarchy might be |
white-nonwhite dichotomy and black non-black dichotomy |
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Factors he sees leading to change? |
1. Increasing immigration of Asians and Hispanics 2. Increasing economic and political position of Asians and Hispanics 3. Increasing need for whites to form "allies" to avoid becoming a numerical minority |
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3 exceptions to the new dichotomy? |
1. residuals 2. multiracials 3. regional variations |
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Important variables for the first two categories? |
Poverty and skin ton (social class) |
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Where were white ethnics stigmatized for a time? |
Northeast and Midwest |
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Where were they readily accepted as white? |
everywhere else |
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Literal colorblindness--to be desired? |
No |
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Purpose of the racial colorblindness "test"? |
Challenge us to consider is we are really color-blind or not |
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Brian Wilson Theory |
How to deal with "race problem" Wouldnt it be nice to pretend that race does not matter bc it would make us happy |
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Gallagher: The functions of colorblindness for whites: |
feel like they have the same experience as non-whites |
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Belief about race of most whites, according to polls: |
most believe that race is not a factor anymore/racial discrimination isnt a problem |
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Race card card |
someone brings up race another person will accuse them of playing the race card |
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Acceptable uses of race within colorblind ideology |
to sell products and for whites to feel they have same experience as minority groups |
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Guinier and Torres: Rules on colorblindness |
race as skin color recognizing race, racism
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Race, wealth, income: Advantages of wealth: |
generational transfers, funding college, down-payment on house |
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Problem those subscribing to colorblindness have in explaining remaining racial inequality |
blaming nonwhites for their own problems, deficiency theories, something qrong, social structure and biological make up |
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Def. of Internal colonialism |
when two populations are intermixed, the race that is the oppressor and the race that is being oppressed. |
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What Susie Gillory Phillips story illustrates |
one drop rule social construction of race |
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polygenesis, monogenesis |
poly-languages developed at different times in different places (independently) mono-all languaged developed from a single source |
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Franz Boas, real heroes opposing racial inferiority idea |
race was not biological but happened through interactions with different evironments and cultures of people |
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Social construction vs. essentialism |
ess- characteristics of ppl/groups are similar in human cultures and historical periods (biological factors) social- cultural and historical ways |
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Racial formation |
main idea of Omi and Winant |
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Crisis of racial meaning |
idk |
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Rule of Hypodescent or One-drop rule |
One drop: belief that is an individual had any black ancestory, that person was legally black and could be defined as slave |
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Meaning of racialization |
Social process which racial identity is attached to group and that group is placed in a race-based hierarchy |
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3 metaphors used to describe embeddedness and persuasiveness of race's influence? |
the air that you breathe the ground you walk on the water you drink |
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Racial classification has been done in conjunction with that historical actions? |
Slavery Nazi Germany Aparthied European imperialism |
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after a society is racialized, that racialization developes _________ as an organizing principle of social relations |
a life of its own |
