According to course lecture and discussion, these three ideas/approaches, which are commonplace within contemporary discourses, undermine our understanding of racism
1) Focus on hate; 2) focus on intent; 3) focus on etiquette; 4) focus on extremism
What percentages of college scholarships are restricted to students of color
What is less than 1 percent
Ruled in 1896, this court case established separate but equal
What is Plessy v Fergusson?
Belief that “person’s success, opportunities, and life chances are the consequence of choices, hard work, and the worthiness of a person’s effort”
What is meritocracy
These filter or strain out information inconsistent with the dominant racial frame/expectations
What are stereotypes?
More subtle and can be seen as accepting, sanctioning, & permitting racism (complicity)
What is passive racism?
Whiteness was as much an asset as __ years of work experience for perspective employees
What is 8 years?
Discussed in lecture and films, each of these pieces legislation are examples of race-based privilege
FHA Loans, Social Security, Minimum Wage, 1790 Naturalization
Ignoring the obstacles below was cited as an example of this
What is colorblind racism?
According to lecture, stereotypes function in these 4 ways
1) Index; 2)A filter; 3)A narrative; 4) Filling in gaps that offer explanations and also rationalizes inequalities
Those brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities (such as questioning where someone is friend or using outdated terms), whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color'
What are micoaggressionsi?
As with experiences of Jose, research at MIT found that applicants with "white sounding names" were ____ more likely percent more likely to receive a callback after submitting a resume than were those with black or Muslim sounding names
What is 50 percent?
Following the Indian Removal Act, the U.S. forcefully removed the Cherokee nation from their lands at gunpoint. One-fourth of the Cherokee nation died in camps or during the movement west. This was known as what?
What is Trail of Tears?
Argued by Claude Steele, this refers to idea that people perform worse when faced with circumstances that will potentially reinforce a stereotype
What is stereotype threat
Pitting African Americans against Asian Americans, erasing the experiences of Hmong and Asian American communities with high poverty rates, and otherwise erasing the diversity of communities through dehumanized narratives, this longstanding idea (dates back to 1960s) is immensely harmful despite claims of positivity
Model Minority Myth
According to Jay Smooth, the key for a transformative conversation about racism is having a _____ conversation
What is a what you did (or that thing you did) conversation?
What percentage of white Americans believe they face discrimination in similar ways as people of color
What is 50 to 60 percent?
Illustrating the ways that race is constructed through the state, she was found to be 'genetically black' and therefore legally black
Who is Susie Phipps
Similar to Gwen Ifil's idea of "Missing white women syndrome," He concluded that “white women were more likely to be subject to news coverage relative to their proportions among missing person"
Who is Sommers?
Refers to idea that stereotypes tend to be reinforced when new information fits them, while information that negates a stereotype tends to be rejected
What is self-fulfilling prophecy
According to Williams, this is the opposite of color-blindness
What is multiculturalism?
As noted in article by Bonilla-Silva, the rate of food insecurity for whites fluctuated from 7 percent to 10 percent from 2001 to 2016, but for Blacks and Latinos, it was ____ & ______ percent
What is 17 and 27?
A legal principle of racial classification that concluded that a person with a single black ancestor, this established the basis of American race theory (ideas about race), shaping who could become a citizen, immigration laws, who had access to certain places and spaces, who could vote, and much more
What is the one drop rule?
What are the 4 frames of colorblindness as noted in lecture/by Bonilla-Silva
abstract liberalism (“explaining racial matters in an abstract, decontextualized manner), naturalization (naturalizing racialized outcomes), cultural racism (“attributing racial differences to cultural practices”), and minimization of racism.
According to Fryberg, what are 4 key features of stereotypes?
What are
Discussed in class using housing as an example to show the impact of racism (policies; laws) on education, health, jobs, etc, this idea "on inter-institutional interactions across time and space"
What is structural racism
Despite widespread stereotypes and prejudices, ____ percent of Native women who’ve experienced violence, has experienced from a non-Native was the perpetrator
What is 97%
Demonstrating the importance of being systemically aware, the frequency of black kids drowning is the result of ______
History of segregation; Jim Crow; housing discrimination; histories of violence; denied access
The image on the RIGHT side can best be described as
Equity.
As mentioned in class, I think the image below is better because current institutional arrangements and history that pro therefore it is not out differences but the way people are and in unequal ways
This research on stereotype threat found that when performance was linked to "natural athletic ability" through testing them on the Michigan Athletic Aptitude Test, whites did more poorly than blacks
Stone research
According to Coates, “But race is the ____ of racism, not the _____. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible—this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white.”
What is child and parent (father)
Acording to Treva Lindsey, black women are _____ times more likely to be killed by the police than white women
1.4
Reflecting longstanding racism that imagined (profiled) Asian women as hyper sexual, as "objects of desire," and as a "moral contagion' this 1875 legislation banned “the importation into the United States of women for the purposes of prostitution.”
What is the Page Act
Contributing to a lack of justice for indigenous women, this Supreme Court ruling concluded "that tribes lack
the authority to prosecute non-Natives who commit violent crimes on tribal lands." It is no wonder that "More than 4 in 5 Native women have reported being the victims of violence. For 97 percent of Native women who’ve experienced violence, a non-Native was the perpetrator (over 50 percent of Native women are married to non-Native men).
Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
To combat stereotypes about black male violence and undermine racialized fear, Brent Staples did this while walking the streets of Chicago
Whistle Vivaldi and Beatles