ISSUES OF RACE AND ETHNICITY
Slide 2WHY DO YOU KEEP BRINGING UP THIS âRACEâ ISSUE?!?! RACE SHARED BIOLOGICALLY TRANSMITTED TRAITS DEEMED âSOCIALLY SIGNIFICANTâ 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
Slide 3Many persons demonstrated more than one classification and that is the reason aggregate is more than 100%
Slide 4In 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
Slide 5DOMINANT 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
Slide 6WE SURE DO SHARE A LOT IN COMMON! GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS SHARE A â DISTINCT IDENTITY â 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
Slide 7(30.9% live in neediness) (33.1% live in destitution) (14.0% live in neediness) (25.0% live in destitution)
Slide 8UNDERSTANDING 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
Slide 9COGNITIVE 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
Slide 10A 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 âPURE RACEâ THESE DAYS; A CONTINUUM RACE IS BIOLOGICAL, BUT WHAT PEOPLE MAKE OF IT IS SOCIAL
Slide 11SCAPEGOAT THEORY BLAMING OTHERS FOR PERSONAL TROUBLES TARGET SELECTION AND THEN AGGRESSION AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY THE âARCHIE BUNKERâ THEORY CULTURE OF PREJUDICE THE SOCIALIZATION EXPERIENCE ITâS âNORMALâ FOR PEOPLE TO PREJUDGE OTHERS CONFLICT THEORY SELF-JUSTIFICATION FOR THE RICH AND POWERFUL IN AMERICA USE OF âRACE CARDâ BY MINORITY GROUPS CAN LEAD TO âWHITE BACKLASHâ MOVEMENTS
Slide 12ITâS 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
Slide 13HOW 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
Slide 14PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION BEGIN AS ETHNOCENTRIC ATTITUDES AS A RESULT, GROUPS CAN BE PLACED IN A SITUATION WHERE THEY ARE SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED AND LABELED A GROUPâS 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
Slide 15RACIAL 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 AMERICAâS âMODEL MINORITY GROUPâ HISPANIC AMERICANS FACING MANY SOCIAL ILLS IN AMERICA
Slide 16SOME 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 âKILLS OFFâ ANOTHER GROUP
Slide 17TWO 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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