Please Bring the Following Discussion Article to Class on Wednesday also Amott and Matthaei

Week 11 Racial and Ethnic Inequality

Chapter 6

Race And Ethnicity

White

Irish Italian

African

Black White

Black

Jamaican Haitian Moreno

Mexican

White

Mestizo

•Racial Groups

--This term indicates a group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.

•Ethnic Groups

--This term indicates a group that is set apart from others primarily because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.

Racial Groups can contain Ethnic Sub Groups and vice versa .:. Importantly, individuals can often choose to identify or hide ethnic identity, but not race identity.

Minority, Racial, and Ethnic Groups

•An ethnic group is set apart from others based on national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.•Ethnic groups in the United States include:

Hispanic Americans

Jewish Americans

Irish Americans

Italian Americans

Ethnicity

http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish/unit_2.html

"Scientific Racism" from an American magazine, Harper’s Weekly , suggested that the Irish are similar to Negroes, and should be extinct!

•Biological Significance of Race--(obvious physical differences) arbitrarily chosen (like eye color)--There is more genetic variation within “races” than across them. (p.223)--varies by location and over time

Source: Sharon M. Lee, “Racial Classifications in the U.S. Census 1890-1990.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 16 (1) January 1993.

--The one drop rule: if a person had a single drop of “Black blood,” they were viewed as nonwhite.

Source: Sharon M. Lee, “Racial Classifications in the U.S. Census 1890-1990.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 16 (1) January 1993.

Social Construction of Race--process whereby people define a group as a race in part on physical characteristics and in part on historical, cultural, and economic factors.

Deconstructing Race

• Jane Elliot (5 min) Blue Eyes

• Please watch closely, as we go over terms following this we will look for examples form this film.

http://www.janeelliott.com /

Ex. Hootoos and Tootsies, Irish Catholic and Irish Protestants, brown-eyeds and blue eyeds

http://www.africarte.it/foto-storiche/Zande-tipi.JPG

http://www.hsrc.ac.za/Document-556.phtml

http://www.janeelliott.com /

Prejudice and Discrimination:

The Vicious Cycle

Hotel Rwanda Examplehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqQfZoUirCE

•Prejudice--a negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority.•Discrimination --the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups based on some type of arbitrary bias.•--persists even for educated and qualified minority group members.

Prejudice= Attitude

Discrimination = Action/behavior

•Minority Groups A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power (in society, over their own lives) than members of the dominant or majority group.

•Properties of a minority group can include:

•unequal treatment

•Distinguish-ing cultural characteris-tics

•involuntary membership

Prejudice and Discrimination:

The Vicious Cycle

•not necessarily a number thing!

Women -Not numerical minority, but a minority group.

Prejudice and Discrimination:

The Vicious Cycle

Stereotypes --an unreliable generalization about all members of a

group that do not recognize individual

differences within the group.

•Racism--a belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.

•Ethnocentrism--the tendency to assume that one’s culture and way of life are superior to all others.

Patterns of Intergroup Relations

•Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1992-1995 - 200,000 Deaths•Rwanda: 1994 - 800,000 Deaths•Pol Pot in Cambodia: 1975-1979 - 2,000,000 Deaths•Nazi Holocaust: 1938-1945 - 6,000,000 Deaths•Rape of Nanking: 1937-1938 - 300,000 Deaths•Stalin's Forced Famine: 1932-1933 - 7,000,000 Deaths•Armenians in Turkey: 1915-1918 - 1,500,000 Deaths

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/

Genocide: The Deliberate, systemic

killing of an entire people

or nation.

BBBC News news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1288230.stm -

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Digital VideoGenocide &

Rape

Patterns of Intergroup Relations

Left off

• Write an example for each

Gender

““You want to impress me? Drive to the store and get me more beer.” Ken Hoffman

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