Crime & Punishment
America does not have higher crime rates than other industrialized countries, yet it incarcerates more of its citizens than any other nation on earth. Between 1970 and 2003, the number of these institutions grew sevenfold.
What are prisons?
This type of politics is defined as political action intended to address unique interests of historically oppressed groups.
What is identity politics?
This term is defined as this presuming of superiority of one racial group over others.
What is racism?
In early American history (colonial times) the family served a very public function. It was responsible for providing healthcare, care for the elderly, and this for children.
What is education?
This type of thinking envisions a world in which race no longer serves as the basis for social stigmatization, discrimination, inequality, or injustice.
What is color-blind thinking?
A black man born after the Civil Rights Movement who later dropped out of high school has a _______ percent chance of doing time in jail or prison.
What is 60%?
Political __________, or PC, usually refers to discourse that, while designed to minimize offense to marginalized groups, ends up censoring certain speech or attitudes deemed off-limits.
What is correctness?
This term is defined as favoring the allocation of resources to native born citizens over immigrants and promotes a fear of foreign cultures.
What is nativism?
Black marriages are this many times as likely to end in divorce as whites?
What is twice?
This type of thinking, like color-blindness, aspires to a world in which all peoples’ inherent dignity as human beings is recognized. However, it also envisions a society in which racial diversity is fully taken into account and valued for its own sake.
What is multiculturalism?
Only 12 percent of the rise in incarceration between 1980 and 1996 was driven by a rise in crime rates. Changes in this type of policies drove the remaining 88 percent.
What are sentencing policies?
In 2004, this group of people were the targets in 17 percent of reported hate crimes; by 2012, the number had jumped to 30 percent. This is largely due to negative feelings about immigration.
Who are Hispanic/Latino people?
Between 1924-1964, there was a mass deportation of people from this country due to a misconception that they were taking jobs from American citizens. This continues to be a misnomer today.
What is Mexico?
Black folks, more so than white folks, feel the need to do this, which is the process by which people change their actions, demeanor, and language use depending on who they are around.
What is code switch?
When we achieve this, we will see people of all racial groups draw returns on societal resources commensurate with the value they themselves have added to them and all people are recognized in their full humanity as contributors to the social whole.
What is racial democracy?
Americans’ fear of crime has more to do with blackness than with crime itself. • Although murder victims are most likely to be young black men, the media focus on what type of victims.
What are white females?
This is one of the hate groups’ favorite recruiting tools.
What is the Internet?
Some people believe that immigrants are overusing and taking advantage of this system, therefore limiting services available to American citizens living in poverty. Statistics reveal this is inaccurate.
What is the welfare system?
In sixteen states, interracial marriage was illegal as recently as 1967, when it was ruled unconstitutional in this famous court case, Loving v. which state?
What is Virginia?
The practice of this, which is a way to ensure racial diversity in the workforce and academic institutions, is sharply opposed by those who hold a color-blind ideal.
What is Affirmative Action?
Although the crime rate in the United States is not dramatically higher than that of other industrialized countries, this rate is dramatically higher.
What is the murder rate?
Ignorance and intolerance of this religion is rampant in the United States. This is due to the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
What is Islam/Muslim?
This percentage of Americans believes that immigrants make “the crime situation” in America worse. However, data show that people who live in immigrant neighborhoods, regardless of their racial identity or immigrant status, are less likely to commit crimes than those who do not.
What is 45%?
Throughout the twentieth century, black, Latina, and Native American women faced attempts to control their reproduction. This was a common practice, resulting in women being unable to bear children.
What is forced sterilization?
Racial injustice continues in housing, education, and other systems. What type of racism is this?
What is institutional or systemic racism?