ISSUES OF RACE AND ETHNICITY.

ISSUES OF RACE AND ETHNICITY

WHY DO YOU KEEP BRINGING UP THIS “RACE” ISSUE?!?! RACE SHARED BIOLOGICALLY TRANSMITTED TRAITS DEEMED “SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT” CAUCASIAN: LIGHT SKIN, FINE HAIR NEGROID: DARKER SKIN, COARSE HAIR MONGOLOID: BROWN SKIN, DISTINCTIVE EYES ETHNICITY SHARED CULTURAL HERITAGE DIVERSITY IN AMERICA: IS IT CELEBRATED? RACE, ETHNICITY, AND ASSIMILATION THOSE CONSIDERED MOST DIFFERENT FROM THE DOMINANT RACE AND ETHNICITY WILL HAVE DIFFICULTY IN ASSIMILATING

Many persons demonstrated more than one classification and that is the reason aggregate is more than 100%

In the Year 2050 DEMOGRAPHICS of the United States 1990 * WHITE 80% OF POPULATION BLACK 12% HISPANIC 9% ASIAN 3% 2050 WHITE 53% OF POPULATION HISPANIC 21% BLACK 16% ASIAN 10% * Percentages taken from past slide

DOMINANT RACIAL GROUP WHITE AMERICA THE RACIAL GROUP THAT HAS WITHIN ITS POWER THE ABILITY TO EXPLOIT AND CONTROL OTHER GROUPS, EVEN IN THE FACE OF RESISTANCE THOSE IN A PLACE OF SOCIAL ADVANTAGE WHITE PRIVILEGE THE FACT THAT WHITES, BY VIRTURE OF THEIR RACIAL IDENTITY, RECEIVE SPECIAL CONSIDERATION IN ALMOST ALL FACETS OF SOCIAL LIFE

WE SURE DO SHARE A LOT IN COMMON! GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS SHARE A “ DISTINCT IDENTITY ” RACE, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, THE POOR SUBORDINATION OFTEN SADDLED WITH LOWER STATUS STEREOTYPES, STIGMA, AND LABELING GROUP SIZE (NUMBERS) WOMEN IN AMERICA OUTNUMBER MEN BLACKS IN SOUTH AFRICA OUTNUMBER WHITES

(30.9% live in neediness) (33.1% live in destitution) (14.0% live in neediness) (25.0% live in destitution)

UNDERSTANDING PREJUDICE A FEW BASIC TERMS MUST BE UNDERSTOOD AND IF YOU GUYS STOP SINGING, THE DOG GETS TO CHASE YOU! Preference NEGATIVE, RIGID, AND IRRATIONAL GENERALIZATION ABOUT AN ENTIRE GROUP OF PEOPLE STEREOTYPING A PREJUDICED DESCRIPTION OF AN ENTIRE CATEGORY OF PEOPLE

COGNITIVE LEVEL THE IDEA OR THOUGHT JEWISH PEOPLE ARE GREEDY EMOTIONAL LEVEL ATTACHING FEELINGS TO IDEA LEARNING TO FEEL ANGER TOWARDS WHITES ACTION-ORIENTATION LEVEL PREDISPOSITION TO ACT MORE LIKELY TO VERBALLY OR PHYSICALLY ATTACK A TARGETTED GROUP

A VERY POWERFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE FORM OF PREJUDICE THAT REMAINS VERY MUCH ALIVE TODAY THE BELIEF THAT ONE RACIAL CATEGORY IS INNATELY SUPERIOR OR INFERIOR TO ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL RACISM INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM RECALL WHAT RACE IS AND SEE THE IRRATIONAL THOUGHT PROCESS THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “PURE RACE” THESE DAYS; A CONTINUUM RACE IS BIOLOGICAL, BUT WHAT PEOPLE MAKE OF IT IS SOCIAL

SCAPEGOAT THEORY BLAMING OTHERS FOR PERSONAL TROUBLES TARGET SELECTION AND THEN AGGRESSION AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY THE “ARCHIE BUNKER” THEORY CULTURE OF PREJUDICE THE SOCIALIZATION EXPERIENCE IT’S “NORMAL” FOR PEOPLE TO PREJUDGE OTHERS CONFLICT THEORY SELF-JUSTIFICATION FOR THE RICH AND POWERFUL IN AMERICA USE OF “RACE CARD” BY MINORITY GROUPS CAN LEAD TO “WHITE BACKLASH” MOVEMENTS

IT’S A MATTER OF ACTION , NOT ATTITUDE VERBALIZATION JOKES, COMMENTS, RACIAL SLURS EXCLUSION KEEPING PEOPLE MARGINAL AVOIDANCE NOT TRAVELING IN CERTAIN AREAS PHYSICAL ABUSE PHYSICAL ATTACKS GENOCIDE SYSTEMATIC KILLING OFF OF A GROUP

HOW ATTITUDES (PREJUDICES) AND ACTIONS (DISCRIMINATION) WORK TOGETHER TO CLASSIFY ALL PEOPLE DISCRIMINATES? YES NO ACTIVE BIGOT TIMID BIGOT YES PREJUDICE? ALL-WEATHER LIBERAL FAIR-WEATHER LIBERAL NO

PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION BEGIN AS ETHNOCENTRIC ATTITUDES AS A RESULT, GROUPS CAN BE PLACED IN A SITUATION WHERE THEY ARE SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED AND LABELED A GROUP’S SITUATION, OVER TIME, IS THUS EXPLAINED AS A RESULT OF INNATE INFERIORITY RATHER THAN LOOKING AT THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF REASONS; THE CYCLE THEN REPEATS ITSELF

RACIAL AND ETHNIC GROUPS NATIVE AMERICANS AN AMERICAN STORY OF GROUP GENOCIDE EURO AMERICANS QUICKLY FORGOT WHY THEY HAD LEFT THEIR OWN COUNTRIES AND DENIED FREEDOM TO MANY GROUPS AFRICAN AMERICANS FORCED IMMIGRATION FOR LABOR ASIAN AMERICANS AMERICA’S “MODEL MINORITY GROUP” HISPANIC AMERICANS FACING MANY SOCIAL ILLS IN AMERICA

SOME FOLKS ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET BEYOND THE SELF-IMPOSED LIMITATIONS OF COLOR PLURALSIM DISTINCT GROUPS WITH PARITY ASSIMILATION ADOPTION OF MAJORITY GROUP CULTURE INTERBREEDING SEGREGATION PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL DISTANCE DE JURE AND DE FACTO SEGREGATION GENOCIDE ONE GROUP “KILLS OFF” ANOTHER GROUP

TWO KEY AREAS: 1) ENHANCE THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS 2) INCREASE MEANINGFUL SOCIAL CONTACT EDUCATION MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION LEARN TO APPRECIATE DIVERSITY MEANINGFUL CONTACT DESIRE TO CHANGE HONEST, SELF-CRITIQUE OF LIFESTYLE PLAN FOR INCREASING SOCIAL CONTACT

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