Week 6

Shih-Chi Lin

Open book quiz on chapter 9

The meaning of RACE

The Race Literacy Quiz

The racial wealth gap in U.S.

Video: Mirrors of Privilege—Making Whiteness Visible

1. Humans have approximately 30,000 genes. On average, how many genes separate all members of one race from all members of another race?

A. None.B. 1C. 23D. 142E. 1008F. We don't know

Answer: A. There are no characteristics, no traits, not even one gene that distinguish all members of one so-called race from all members of another race.

2. Members of a race can be identified by their:A. Blood groupB. Skin colorC. AncestryD. GenesE. None of the aboveF. All of the above

Answer: E

3. Skin color correlates most closely with:A. Hair formB. IQC. Risk for sickle cell, Tay Sachs and other genetic diseasesD. Geographic latitudeE. Continent of ancestral originF. Jumping and sprinting ability

Answer: D

4. According to a 1993 study, 86% of suburban whites lived in a community where the black population was:

A. Less than 5%B. Less than 10%C. Less than 1%D. More than 10%E. More than 15%

Answer: C

5. Today, the median net worth of the white family is how much compared to the black family?

A. Three times as muchB. Eight times as muchC. more than ten times as muchD. Twice as muchE. The same

Answer: C

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Myth 1 - Idea That Any Race is Superior

◦ All Races Have Geniuses and Idiots.

◦ Genocide Still Around

Myth 2 - Idea that Any Race is Pure

◦ Human Characteristics Flow

Endlessly Together.

Race: Myth and Reality

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Race Refers to Biological Characteristics.

Ethnicity Refers to Cultural Characteristics.

◦ Common Ancestry

◦ Cultural Heritage

◦ Nations of Origin

Ethnic Groups

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Sense of Ethnicity

◦ Relative Size

◦ Power

◦ Appearance

◦ Discrimination

Ethnic Work and the Melting Pot

Constructing Racial-

Ethnic Identity

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Sense of Ethnicity

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Learning Prejudice

◦ Prejudice vs. Discrimination

Discrimination is Action

Learning from Association

Prejudice and

Discrimination

Prejudice is an attitude and discrimination is unfair treatment.

Individual discrimination is the negative treatment of one person by another.

Institutional discrimination is the discrimination built into society’s social institutions. It focuses on human behavior at the group level. Examples: mortgage lending practices, health care and car loans.

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Genocide

Population Transfer

Internal Colonialism

Segregation

Assimilation

Multiculturalism (Pluralism)

Global Patterns of

Intergroup Relations

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Global Patterns of Intergroup

Relations: A Continuum

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Race-Ethnicity & Comparative Well-Being

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Race-Ethnicity & Education

The wealth gap between whites and African Americans increased from $20,000 to $95,000.

In 2007, one in ten African Americans owed at least $3,600, almost doubling their debt burden since 1984.

At least 25% of African American families had no assets to turn to in times of economic hardship.

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Projections of the Racial-Ethnic Makeup

of the US Population

The Privilege of Having “No Color”

Racial Transparency

Why whiteness is normative and invisible?