1619 project (on democracy) - ANSWER The role that African Americans played in
the establishment of the US - showed the different wants they were discriminated
against
Omi and Winant (race as a social construct) - ANSWER Social, economic, &
political forces determined the content & importance of racial categories - shaped by
racial meanings
Beverly Tatum (on who can deploy racism) - ANSWER Discrimination vs Racism -
people of color can't be racist, only whites can be - preconceived judgement or
opinion of different races - prejudice + power = racism
Pem Buck (early white privilege laws) - ANSWER Whiteness was a sense of
superiority that helped poor white people feel racial superiority against black people
Rothenberg (laws as tool for implementing racism) - ANSWER "Law is often
presented as a rational, objective, and neutral discourse. Reading the the actual
words of lawmakers and judges as they attempt to justify inequalities in a democracy
exposes the lie of neutrality and teaches us a great deal about the workings of the
nation"
Bonilla-Silva (on color blind racism) - ANSWER Color-blind racism where whites
said that we are all the same and racism doesn't exist - abstract liberalism (all human
are equal & have equal opportunity) - naturalization (belief "that's the way it is") -
biologization of culture (belief that success isn't because of culture) - minimization of
race (belief that racism doesn't exist anymore)
Glissant (on creolization & language & geography of creole culture) - ANSWER The
creation of the creole language - language is creole id it has a mix of 2 or more
languages - slaves coming from different tribes & all had to create a language where
they all understood each other in order to survive
Baldwin (on Black English and language) - ANSWER the importance of the creation
of language - if slave spoke same language slavery wouldn't have lasted as long -
language came into existence by the means of brutal necessity
Brave Bird (on boarding schools) - ANSWER Bird's experience in Indian Boarding
schools along with her grandma, mom, and sister experience there - they were taken
away from their family and were only allowed to visit family once a week every year
Miranda (California Mission System) - ANSWER Miranda talks about how the
mission project that 4th graders have to do shaped society into believing that Native
Americans were dumb, passive, and disappearing - An example was used where a
little girl didn't know that Indigenous people still exist because of projects like this one
, Boarding School Healing Project (collective reparations) - ANSWER Talks about
who/how boarding schools were established - The first boarding school established
by Richard Pratt called the Carlisle Boarding School - "Kill the Indian and Save the
man" - schools violated human rights - reparations shouldn't just be compensation
but benefits too - 3 reparations: healing services, language revitalization, land
reparations
Background readings on origins of the American Indian Boarding Schools (also know
when Carlisle Indian School began and the types of collective reparations being
sought today by Native people) - ANSWER The origins of these schools are deeply
tied to the federal government's policies towards Native Americans during the 19th
and early 20th centuries, rooted in a belief that Native cultures needed to be
eradicated for assimilation into Euro-American society.
Madrid (on history of school desegregation) - ANSWER 1931 lemon grove incident
- the rationale for the board's action (sending students to caballeria/barn for school)
to improve education opportunities for Mexican children - parents were upset and
fought for school desegregation
Doug Massey (on immigration) - ANSWER Massey talks about the increase of
immigration enforcement by first terminating the Bracero Program in 1964 then in
1965 congress passed the immigration and nationality act that capped 120k total
immigrants - the enforcement of immigrants did not stop mexican immigrants from
coming to the United States
Chomsky (on how most undocumented individuals become undocumented ) -
ANSWER When the US enforced the border by not allowing undocumented
immigrants to come to the US because of laws such as the 2001 patriot act.
Bayoumi (Middle Eastern racialization) - ANSWER Talks about the newest minority
in the 'American imagination' is Arabs and Muslim Americans - they faced a lot of
discrimination/xenophobia after 9/11 - issue was that
Danticat (Blackness and immigration) - ANSWER "money can move freely, but
people cannot" - black bodies are more threatened than they have been in this
century - after a shooting occurred in charleston, sc where the killer believed that
immigrants were taking over the country
Kochiyama (Japanese incarceration) - ANSWER Kochiyama was a Japanese
American political & civil right activist - during war world 2 the US government
forcibly removed her and her family to an incarceration site for Japanese Americans
- they took away her dad when it all started
Thrupkaew (uses of the model minority myth) - ANSWER The idea that asians were
good in education, had good family values, and was used to represent to other
minorities that shouldn't be using welfare - also put the belief that Asians didn't need
help from the government and were not given funds when needed.
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