American Institutions
The State of Race in America
American Indians
Black / African Americans
Misc.
100
The founding political philosophy in America, and a primary point of study for Barker & Jones
What is liberalism
100
According to Logan, this ideology holds that racial discrimination against nonwhites is largely of a thing of the past, that it is better not to speak about racial matters, and that policy initiatives designed to remedy racial inequality are themselves discriminatory and unfair
What is colorblind individualism
100
What three components does "treble citizenship" refer to?
What are: tribal, state, federal.
100
What is the hypodescent rule?
What is: the rule that offspring of women who are enslaved will also acquire the status of being enslaved (basically, slavery was inherited)
100
What are 3 of the primary issues AIM seeks to combat?
What are: racism, poverty, police brutality, violations of treaty rights.
200
It's hard to argue that there is a racial dichotomy in contemporary America, but Bonilla-Silva advances that there will be a triracial system. What three components make up this triracial system?
What are: whites, honorary whites, and the collective black
200
According to Bonilla-Silva, what are 3 of the key characteristics of "new racism?"
What are: covert racial discourse and practices, avoidance of racial terminology, incorporation of "safe minorities," the invisibility of most mechanisms to reproduce racial inequality, the rearticulation of some racial practices characteristic of the Jim Crow period.
200
According to lecture, what is the current political status of tribes?
What is domestic dependent nations.
200
What did the 1965 Voting Rights Act stipulate? (name at least 2 attributes)
What are: banning the use of literacy tests (and other tests required to vote), providing for federal oversight of voter registration in areas where less than 50 percent of the non-white population had not registered to vote, and authorizing the U.S. attorney general to investigate the use of poll taxes in state and local elections
200
According to McClain and Carew (REMAP p. 43), what are some of the prereqs for minority groups to win political change through social movement?
What are: preexisting organizations, catalytic leadership, outside resources/support, and effective strategy and tactics.
300
Briefly describe at least 3 key attributes of pluralism, according to Hero's work.
What are: group formation, multiple entry points, dispersed power, essential political resources, incremental change, separate spheres of influence
300
What are 4 of the prominent features of the new racial landscape mentioned by Logan?
What are: colorblind individualism, new immigrants of color, the white crisis identity, black identities, post-racialism
300
When was AIM founded, and what have been some of their milestones?
1968, and: –Occupation of the Alcatraz Island in 1969-71 –Trail of Broken Treaties March in 1972 –Wounded Knee Standoff in 1973
300
What is the SNCC?
What is the student non-violent coordinating committee. It was founded to better incorporate young people into the civil rights movement.
300
In California, Latina women earn ______ cents on the dollar compared with white men
What is 43
400
Hero argues that America does not enjoy pluralism, but instead _________. Another related theoretical framework Hero discusses in his work is __________.
What is two-tiered pluralism; internal colonialism.
400
According to Bonilla-Silva, what is the concept of whiteness, and how is it measured?
What is according to Bonilla-Silva, whiteness is embodied racial power, and is measured by advantaged whites receive (answers vary).
400
In terms of their political goals, how are American Indians unique from other minority groups?
What is: AINAs do not seek inclusion or incorporation; they seek sovereignty.
400
According to Marable, what are 3 of the historical consequences of America's structural racism?
What are: wealth, labor market, health, and criminal justice.
400
What is race?
–an identity, based on self or social perception –a social structure & political institution –an ideological construct
500
How does liberalism allow for economic inequalities?
What is: liberalism emphasized individualism and thus places blame upon individuals for their failure to succeed - it accommodates the concept that individuals are flawed, while leaving little to no room to explore the concept of institutional and systemic racism.
500
According to lecture, what is racial formation?
A theory of race that proposes that race itself does not have fixed, concrete, or objective meanings; race is an unstable element of social structure and dimension of human representation which is constantly being transformed by political conflicts over rights, identity, and distribution of resources (Omi and Winant, 1986, 1994, 2014)
500
According to lecture, approximately what percentage of the population are AIANs? Second, in what states do the largest share of AIANs reside? (there are 3)
What is: 2%; AK, OK, NM.
500
What are 3 hallmark examples of nonviolent action taken by Black Americans?
What are: Montgomery bus boycott, Baton Rouge bus boycott, Nashville (lunch counter) sit-in, Semla march, Black Lives Matter
500
According to lecture, the First Reconstruction (1865-1877) encapsulated which 3 Constitutional Amendments?
What are: 13th, 14th, and 15th.
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