Race and Labor

The Rightness of Whiteness

100

What 3 factors most influenced American social policy towards blacks?

Share cropping, two-track welfare, and restrictive immigration laws

200

What role did Christianity play in the Civil Rights movement?

Christianity was used to combat white conservatives who labeled blacks and labor radicals as communists to undermine their cause during the Cold War

The Fight Begins

100

What major racial project emerged from the civil rights era that helped promote black representation in the workforce? What was the reaction to this?

Affirmative action, whites believed it was "reverse discrimination" (MacLean 43)

200

In what ways were civil rights and economic security related?

Blacks viewed economic security as a means of autonomy and justice, they needed the ability to work to accomplish this

Whiteness as Property

100

The applied system that is thought to undermine institutions based on race.

What is Affirmative Action?

200

The loss of *blank* was capable of being valued in the market in terms of Whiteness.

What is reputation?

300

This Founding Father's views held that not only a person's possessions, but their connection to those possessions is considered property.

Who is James Madison?

400

The law's denial of *blank*, through a liberalist lens, leads to a continuation of the idea that there is equality under the law.

What are racial groups?

500

Through creating precise definitions of racial group membership the law was able to do this.

What is parcel out social standing?

Civil Rights at Work

100

One of the reasons that the Southern textile industry followed the fair employment policies of the EEOC.

What is an unusual susceptibility to federal oversight (82); a lack of union power (83); the nature of textile work (93); centralization (103)

200

Factor(s) leading to the “murky lines of authority and accountability” in the construction industry.

What is decentralization (103); project transience (103); union power (93)

The Struggle for Inclusion Since the Reagan Era

100

Reagan era conservative argument against affirmative action; belief that society should not engage in racial projects.

What is color-blindness (303-304)

200

Two different groups that “mobilized en masse” to protect affirmative action in federal contracting

What is black activists (306); Latinos (306); Women/feminists (306-307); Black Republicans (307); Congress (308); Jews and Catholics influenced by feminism (308-309); Higher education (309); Progressive unions (309); Corporate leaders (311)