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
•Racial Groups
--This term indicates a group
that is set apart from others
because of obvious physical
differences.
White
Irish
Black
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.
Mexican
African
Italian Jamaican Haitian White
Moreno Black
Mestizo
White
•Ethnic Groups
--This term indicates a group that is set apart from others primarily
because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
Minority, Racial, and Ethnic
Groups
Ethnicity
•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
•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
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!
--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.
haron M. Lee, “Racial Classifications in the U.S. Census 1890-1990.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 16 (1) January 1993.
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 /
http://www.janeelliott.com /
Ex. Hootoos and Tootsies, Irish Catholic and Irish
Protestants, brown-eyeds and blue eyeds
http://www.hsrc.ac.za/Document-556.phtml
http://www.africarte.it/foto-storiche/Zande-tipi.JPG
Prejudice and
Discrimination:
The Vicious Cycle
Prejudice=
Attitude
Discrimination =
Action/behavior
Hotel Rwanda
Example
http://www.you
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•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 and
Discrimination:
The Vicious Cycle
•Properties of
a minority
group can
include:
•not necessarily
a number thing!
Women -Not
numerical
minority, but a
minority group.
•unequal
treatment
•Distinguish-
ing cultural
characteristics
•involuntary
membership
•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.
Prejudice and
Stereotypes --an
Discrimination:
The Vicious Cycle
unreliable generalization
about all members of a
group that do not
recognize individual
differences within the
group.
•Ethnocentrism--the tendency to
assume that one’s culture and way of life
are superior to all others.
•Racism--a belief that one race is supreme and all
others are innately inferior.
Digital Video
Genocide &
Rape
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
BBBC News news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1288230.stm 48k
Genocide: The
Deliberate,
systemic
killing of an
entire people
or nation.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/
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
Los Gatos, Calif.
http://www.cartoonbank.com/CapContest/CaptionContest.aspx?tab=winner