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21 Century
RAcism and Racial Attitude
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The person who identifies as black but parents are white | Rachel Dolezal |
| Changes in Racism | More subtle and less overt |
| Labor Market Discrimination | judged based off of name, address and race |
| Consequence of labor market discrimination | fewer call backs, higher unemployment, lower wages,lower quality jobs |
| Middle Class Latinos Language | Spanish Language perceived as threat, less intelligent, untrustworthy |
| Anti- Asian Prejudices | perceived as perpetual foreigners, unsociable and resented because of their success: socially awkward submissive |
| fasting growing immigrant group | Asians |
| Model Minority Stereotypes | Asians are high performing and do not experience discrimination |
| Lowest political participation | Asians |
| Model Minority | Asians looked at to set an example for other minorities |
| government Action | is less needed because structural racism isn't a problem, more subtle racism and implicit bias that contribute to racial inequality |
| Implications | Overt Racism as not socially acceptable, more tolerated, interracial marriages etc |
| Affirmative Action | Executive order signed in 1961 which required employers not to discriminate against employers due to race |
| Pres John | in 1967 pressured institutions to comply with non discriminatory acts |
| Pres. Kennedy | Signed for Affirmative Action in 1961 |
| Pres Nixon | Extended affirmative action |
| Fisher v. University of Texas | Supreme Court Cases that upheld limited use of race in admissions |
| Colleges and University policies | increase woman and minority by reserving certain spaces or considering race in admission |
| Affirmative Action Myths | Minority students are unqualified and are only admitted because of affirmative action, |
| polices that take places from white | affirmative action |
| Harvard lawsuti | Asian American applicants argue they wee discriminated against |
| Color Blind Racism | a more covert, sophisticated, culture centered and subtle racist ideology that is less extreme and more socially permeable than JIM Crow Racism |
| Another name for Color Blind racism | laiisez faire racism |
| Blaming the victim | Model Minority stereotype validates color blind racism and blame other minority for their lack of success |
| Critiques of Color Blind Racismapproach | Race still have important implications for people everyday lives, attitudes and behaviors |
| more difficult to challenge than De jure racism | color blind racism |
| Zero Sum Game | White fear about changing demographics of the country |
| Obama Polices | To alleviate labor market discrimination, improve social and economic position of blacks, give preference in hiring and promotion to blacks. |
| Post Racialism | shifting racial boundaries of Obama presidency and growth of minority middle class classes suggested that we were beyond race and racism |
| Racial Attitudes in 2016 | race relations are getting worse |
| Voting Right Act of 1965 | Abolished poll tax and other discriminatory voting laws |
| 2014 Supreme Court Decision | overturned some parts of Voting Right Act of 1965 |
| Trump Voter | White, male, lower education and older |
| Clinton Voters | female, urban, foreign born, more educated, younger |