Ch 9: Race
Identify the ways in which the Burakumin in Japan demonstrate the process of racialization.
- The Burakumin have poorer health, less educational achievement, and lower income than their fellow Japanese citizens. - The Burakumin are treated as a distinct group, unrelated to other Japanese. - The Burakumim are barred from full participation in Japanese society.
Identify the beliefs that characterize racism.
- that humans are divided into distinct bloodlines and/or physical types - that bloodlines or physical characteristics are linked to distinct cultures, behaviors, and intellectual abilities - that certain groups are, by virtue of their bloodlines or physical characteristics, superior to others
Identify the correct statements about the eugenics movement
-Eugenicists contended that mental, physical, and psychological traits were passed down within racial groups. -Eugenics is a pseudoscience, long discredited among the scientific community. -Eugenics was used to support programs to control fertility and immigration to limit the presence of racial groups within the population.
Place in chronological order the events that lead to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which at least 500,000 members of the Tutsi tribe were massacred by members of the Hutu tribe.
-Hutus and Tutsis are living together in relative harmony - Belgium, as the local colonial power, institutes a class hierarchy - Following Rwandan independence in 1982, the Hutus control the government. Ethnic tensions simmer for three decades - Three years of failed crops put Rwanda's social fabric under strain - The hutut take out their frustration of the tutsis, killing hundreds of thousands
Identify the consequences of making everyone (whites and others) more aware of whiteness as a racial category.
-It removes the assumption that whiteness is normal and non-whiteness is deviant. -It encourages some whites to embrace white consciousness in racist fashion.
What is the single largest ethnic group in the United States today?
German Americans
Identify the correct and incorrect statements about race.
Race is about bloodlines Race is a social construct
What was the racial atmosphere in the housing project where Dalton Conley grew up in the 1970s?
White was the marginalized group
In the video, sociologist Jennifer Lee describes the evolution of color-based social divisions in the United States. Which line does Lee say is replacing the white-black divide?
A black-non black divide
Place in chronological order the events that lead to the formation of black ghettos in the first part of the twentieth century.
-Demographic change trends and structural changes in the economy increased competition for jobs - The social boundary between blacks and whites hardened -property owners and police cooperated to maintain segregated neighborhoods -Federal aid to home purchasers favored whites over blacks -Urban "renewal projects forced black Americans to relocate into crime-ridden public housing projects
Place the historical events in chronological order.
-The U.S. Supreme Court decides Plessy v. Ferguson. -Allied forces fight the racist regime of Nazi Germany. -The U.S. Supreme Court decides Brown v. Board of Education. -Mandatory busing is used to desegregate schools. -Integration of schools through compulsory busing is widely rejected as unacceptable.
Institutional racism occurs when a seemingly race-neutral policy or social dynamic disadvantages minority groups. Identify the examples of institutional racism.
-The phenomenon of "white flight," which holds down home values in predominantly black neighborhoods. -Tax laws that ease the tax burden on the very wealthy. -Higher penalties associated with crack cocaine than with the powdered form.
Identify the factors that contributed to the decline and near-disintegration of Native American cultures in North America, following the arrival of European explorers in the late fifteenth century.
-forced assimilation -disease -forced relocation -military technology
The animation describes a paradox about race: it is a social construct with life-or-death consequences. Fill in the blanks to complete the passage The word race comes from a Latin word meaning _____. Our modern concept of race has evolved in conjunction with _____, as a rationale for a group of people with one common _____ to _____ other people.
-root -imperialism -bloodline -conquer and dominate
Old-fashioned racism is based on the idea of _______ traits that make some people better than others. The new racism, called _________ racism, uses _______ rhetoric; it blames the troubles of minority groups on their different _______.
-unchangeable -"laissez-faire" - race neutral -cultures
Most Native Americans in the United States live on reservations.
False