Week 4R1 Main Ideas
In "Problem Discrimination" what framework does the author provide to describe discrimination?
The framework includes individual, organizational and structural discrimination.
Define individual discrimination AND provide an example?
Individual discrimination: Individual discrimination can be open, unintentional, intentional based and is based on prejudice (244).
Example: low expectations from minority students by counselors.
Example: Administrators historically white males who rely on word-of-mouth recruiting among their friends
What is the main argument/idea in "Tennessee Judge Tells Immigrant Mothers: Learn English or Else" by Ellen Barry?
Parents being told to learn English or else they were going to terminate their parental rights.
What is the main idea in “The Segregated Classrooms of a Proudly Diverse School” (2005), by Jeffrey Gettleman?
Columbia High School classrooms are largely segregated. Statistics show:
The school’s demographics are largely African Americans
White students make up the majority of the advanced classes
African American students outnumber whites in lower-level classes
What is the concern highlighted in “Wealthy Often Win the Race for Merit-Based College Aid” (2005)?
Non-need based aid encourages wealthy applicants and discourages those with little money.
The problem with this is that institutions will be closed to low-income students.
What else are we missing?
What is the Abercrombie Settles Class-Action Suit regarding? Please explain.
Main idea:Law suit against the clothing company which promoted whites at the expense of minorities. Charged the company with discrimination.
Can you provide an example?
Structural Discrimination:
is a form of institutional discrimination that impacts opportunities. Takes place within fields and also between structures.
What is the main idea on the reading, "Goodbye To Pat Morita, Best Supporting Asian"?
TV industry has never had many roles for Asian-American men
If there are roles they play stereotypical roles in films
The students at Columbia High School were planning to protest what?
The leveling system.
What is the argument that is being used in “Income Gap is Widening, Data Shows” (2007) to explain income disparity?
Some attribute it to technological changes
Others say that it is public policies
Rising income, reduced taxes, and government benefits are also factors
"Where English Only Falls Short" by Stacy T., employees were suing Sephora for their English only policy where they could not speak another language other than English. What argument did the employees use to explain why they were using a different language?
National-origin discrimination civil rights act of 1964.
On their argument employees mentioned that they were often code-switching in order to provide a better explanation to their customers (261).
Define organizational discrimination?
Can you provide an example?
Definition:
practiced by individuals, and is often reinforced by established rules, policies, and practices of organizations (245)
Example: Credit policies of banks that prevent the granting of mortgage monies and loans in minority neighborhoods
On "My Black Skin Makes My White Coat Vanish" by Mana Lumumba-Kasongo, what is being highlighted?
The experiences of people of color navigating fields they are not "expected" to be a part of. In the case for this reading we see the experience of a Black woman doctor.
What is the main idea in “Race and Family Income of Students Influence Guidance Counselors’ Advice, Study Finds (2006)?
Race and family income of prospective college applicants influence the advice high-school counselor give students.
What is the main idea on “Meet the Wealth Gap” (2008) by Gabriel Thompson?
On the East side of Manhattan two very different experiences
Working poor (undocumented and citizens)
Hedge-fund executives whose wealth is expanding so quickly they do not know what to do with it
What is "Black vs. Latinos at Work" by Mirin Jordan about?
Main idea: African Americans being discriminated against for employment opportunities based on their race.
African Americans who feel they are being passed over Hispanics
On "Closing Doors on Americans’ Housing Choices" by Austin Turner and Carla Herbig, they bring up the idea of pair-testing, can you describe this practice?
They introduce pair-testing where they send people with diferent racial background and abilities who have the same qualifications to search for homes.
On "My Black Skin Makes My White Coat Vanish" by Mana Lumumba-Kasongo. The doctor highlights the experience she had with one of her patients? What was that experience?
The doctor was treating a patient, a white, 80 something year old man who said to her "it must have been very hard for you to make it," "A woman--and Black."
“College Choices Are Limited for Students from Needy Families, Report Says” (2004) highlights what about low-income students?
Report looks at the ability of needy students to go to college and graduate
Stratification of low-income students where they are attending two year institutions and non-degree-granting institutions
They are limiting their opportunities if they do not go beyond to get their BAs
On “Race and Extreme Inequality” (2008) by Dedrick Muhammad is highlighting what?
During the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama - conversations about race were primarily at the symbolic and interpersonal level
However, these conversations did not addressed racial economic disparities and the slow rate of progress toward equity in wealth and wages
What is the main idea on "Muslim-American Running Back off the Team at New Mexico State" by Matthew Rothschild?
Discrimination where individuals were let go from teams, questioned about Islam and ties to Al-Qaeda.
Asian Americans, Hispanics and African Americans are given similar poor/discriminatory treatment as they search the home market, there is also discrimination against Native Americans and people with different abilities.
What is the main idea on "Closing Doors on Americans’ Housing Choices" by Austin Turner and Carla Herbig?
Describes that discrimination by landlords, real estate agents and mortgage lenders stand in the way for many families searching for a place to live (281)
What is being highlighted in “Wealthy Often Win the Race for Merit-Based College Aid” (2005)?
From 1995-2000 scholarships for students whose families make less than $40,000 increased 22% in comparison to families that make $100,000+ increased by 145%
On "Billionaires R US", Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel state that in order to address the widening disparities there a few things that can be done to make a difference, what are those things?
Public policies in trade, taxes, wages and social spending can make a difference at the national and global level (prolonged inequality)