Constructing Race
Racial Formations
White Privilege
How Jews Became White
Microaggressions
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According to Davidson Buck (2001, p. 32), the elites "had to teach Whites the value of whiteness" in order to ...
What is divide the union between free Africans and Europeans and rule (dominate) the labor force.
100
What does the Phipps (1982-3) case illustrate on p. 10?
What is the challenge in defining race and "establishing its meaning in institutional life"? That race definitions were arbitrarily defined by each state. That Louisiana had a rule that 1/32 drop of "Negro blood" made a person racially Black.
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"The daily exercise of white power over Black individuals had become a cherished part of Southern culture", a "critically important way for whites to 'settle for being white', and identify with big slave-holding planters, who ultimately protected the benefits of being white" that Davidson Buck (2001, p. 34) describes is the birth of ____________?
What is white privilege?
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What did Madison Grant’s share in his influential Passing of the Great Race? (p. 275)
"he shared his discovery that there were three or four major European races ranging from the superior Nordics of northwestern Europe to the inferior southern and eastern races of Alpines, Mediterraneans, and, worst of all, Jews, who seemed to be everywhere in his native New York City"
100
When Asian Americans and Latinx Americans are assumed to be foreign-born, the microaggression experienced is known as....
What is "alien in own land"?
200
After Bacon's Rebellion, white elites used several strategies to enforce their domination over non-whites. Name at least one domination strategy.
What is punish White women who married African or Native men? What is whip or enslave a white women who marries a Black man? What is prevent solidarity? What is deny interracial children? What is construct racial categories?
200
What is race?
What is a social construct?
200
List at least two examples of white privilege as referenced in Davidson Buck (2001) article on "Constructing Race" (p. 34).
What is: only whites could bear arms? Only whites had right to self-defense? White servants could own live-stock, Blacks could not. It became illegal to whip naked whites. Whites had to be given dues at the end of their indenture, not Blacks. Only whites could oversee Black labor. White men were given right to "control" their women without white elite interference. Blacks were denied right to family. African women defined as labor, while white women defined as home keepers.
200
How did the Red Scare of 1919 promote negative views about working class individuals and immigrants in Seattle?
What is "The Red Scare of 1919 clearly linked antiimmigrant to anti-working-class sentiment—to the extent that the Seattle general strike of native-born workers was blamed on foreign agitators. It justified the mistreatment of Jews who at this time were not considered white.
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Statements such as "When I look at you, I don’t see color” or “America is a melting pot”, which indicate that a White person does not want to acknowledge race is an example of this type of microaggression, ______________.
What is colorblind racism?
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Name at least one way white elites utilized their domination (power over) non-whites after Bacon's Rebellion?
What is dominate colonial legislatures that make laws? What is dominate the courts that administer laws? What is build a racial strategy? What is deny "free-property owning Blacks, mulattos, and Native Americans the right to vote?
300
Why are racial formations problematic in the assigning of categories of "higher" and "lower" cultural groups?
What is racial formations suggests racial superiority/inferiority as a inherent "birth right/defect"? It justifies the mistreatment of individuals based on 'group membership'.
300
How many "daily effects of white privilege" did Peggy McIntosh (1989) identify?
What is fifty daily effects of white privilege?
300
When were Jews considered whites?
What is after WWII?
300
What type of message does the microaggression known as Pathologizing cultural values/communication styles send to people of color?
What is "assimilate to dominant culture. Leave your cultural baggage outside. Dismissive-- Your concerns are not legitimate."
400
What was the significance of Bacon's Rebellion?
What is it was a moment of solidarity among individuals of diverse races? What is white elites reacted negatively and built a racial strategy to dominate (have power over) non-whites? What is it prompted punishment for uniting across "racial categories"? What is it created fear of unity?
400
The ideological process that attributes racial meaning to previously racially unclassified relationships, social practices, or groups is (p. 14)?
What is racialization?
400
Why does Peggy McIntosh call white privilege "an invisible knapsack"?
What is individuals may be unaware of the advantages and benefits attributed to their race? The current systems and institutions do not remind whites of their race and the privileges associated with this group membership on a daily basis, so the benefits are experienced as "normal", the "norm", "just the way it is".
400
What was significant about the GI Bill of Rights, as the 1944 Serviceman’s Readjustment Act was known, which was arguably the most massive affirmative action program in U.S. history?
What is it was aimed at and disproportionately helped male, Euro-origin GIs, especially Jewish men enter college and obtain other benefits, which allowed for upward class mobility?
400
In the video we watched in class, microaggressions were compared to mosquito bites because...?
What is the bites (microaggressions) hurt (physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually)? Repeated stings over time can leave a "mark" or "imprint". Some people get "bit" more than others. Getting "bit" too much can have long term effects such as internalized oppression, anger, hostility, distrust, and more.
500
Bacon's Rebellion demonstrated that poor whites and poor blacks could be united in a cause. Why does this invoke great fear in the ruling class?
What is fear of losing domination? What would prevent the poor from uniting to fight them? What is fear that Blacks and poor whites would attempt to take power over white elites?
500
Omi and Winant (1994) discuss the political organization of the working class as a racial project (p. 14). What is the difference (and significance) between individuals called "working class", and the "underclass"?
What is whites were considered working class, and Blacks were called underclass? Let to institutional patterns, segregated unions, dual labor markets, which perpetuated the "color line" within the working class. Prevents solidarity.
500
"I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods which fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser’s shop and find someone who can cut my hair." is an example from white article, written by what author?
What is Peggy McIntosh article titled White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack?
500
What was unique about the 1930 U.S. Census?
What is it distinguished not only immigrant from “native” whites, but also native whites of native white parentage, and native whites of immigrant (or mixed) parentage. In distinguishing immigrant (southern and eastern Europeans) from “native” (northwestern Europeans), the census reflected the racial distinctions of the eugenicist-inspired intelligence tests?
500
"A college or university with buildings that are all names after White heterosexual upper class males Television shows and movies that feature predominantly White people, without representation of people of color. Overcrowding of public schools in communities of color, and Overabundance of liquor stores in communities of color" are examples of which microaggression?
What is Environmental microaggressions? Macro-level microaggressions, which are more apparent on systemic and environmental levels.
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