Reading Assignments:
Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Brief Edition, Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach– Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5 (pp. 1-139)
Lectures to be covered on Exam:
All lectures and lecture notes – from start of semester to March 12. .
Concepts and historical events or movements you should know about:
- Ideological racism
- Race as a social construct
- Ethnic Group
- Dominant group
- Subordinate group
- Prejudice
- Stereotype
- Craniometry
- Discrimination
- Institutional versus Individual discrimination
- Systemic racism and structural racism
- Reverse discrimination
- Paternalistic v. Competitive Racism
- Acculturation
- Refugees’ migration
- Voluntary migration
- Chain migration
- Forced migration
- Cultural Assimilation versus Structural Assimilation
- Anglo-conformity
- Class analysis
- Caste versus class
- Internal Colonialism
- Assimilation, Amalgamation and Pluralism
- Split Labor Market
- The Great Migration
- Middleman Minorities
- Ethnic Enclaves
- Patriarchal system
- Matriarchal system
- Southern Plantation Oligarchy
- Biological Racism v. Cultural Racism
- Industrial Capitalism
- The Spanish Inquisition
- Anglo-Saxon
- Nativism
- Anti-Semitism
- Trails of Tears
- Ghetto
- De Jure Segregation
- De Facto Segregation
- Affirmative Action
- Racial Profiling
- Sojourners
- Scapegoat
- White Privilege
- Blaming the victim for the crime
- Recidivism
Racism and identity problems
The Indian Removal Act
Microaggressions
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act.
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Proposition 187
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.
Racial Stereotypes – Mammy, Sapphire, Jezebel, Dragon Lady and Butterfly, Amos ‘n’ Andy, Latinos/as
Pigmentocracy
Mulatto
Hypodescent
Meztizo
Pardo
Creole
Do you understand the meaning of each concept?
Can you express what you understand in words that make sense to you?
Can you put in your own words a summary of the ideas presented by the following theorists? What important concepts were introduced by each theorist?
Robert Park
Milton Gordon T. W. Adorno
Gunnar Myrdal Karl Marx
Robert K. Merton Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Dubois