Hannah, Maria, Erika, Keva, Nathan, Kaelyn - facilitate a discussion on Chapter 8
7:15 - Instructor-lead discussion
If race has been discredited as a biological concept, what does it mean to say that it is a cultural construct?
Jane Elliot's A Class Divided
Overview of the social construction of race...
Why haven't we learned to apply the common-sense adage, "don't judge a book by its cover," to our interactions with other human beings?
Why does our tendency to classify and stratify people by their appearance continue despite decades of scientific evidence contradicting natural and absolute divisions of humanity?
What does it mean that we "look with our eyes, but see with our hearts, instincts, and history"?(p.126)
How did social reformers and the 1960's Civil Rights movement accentuate race-based differentation and stratification?
What is the role of legislation? (p.130)
Are Americans beginning to understand that "race is no longer as simple as black and white"? (p.128)
Is there a "continuum" of racial awareness, or are people either racist or non-racist?
Where does race and racism come from? (p.130)Stephen Colbert interviews Nell Irvin Painter on The History of White People
jokes to talk about
"I don't see race"
"I have a Ph.D, am I white? - relationship to class"
"gets fired up about Scots-Irish people – historical/religious antagonism"
"White people are the default color"
"class, Jimmy Buffet records"
Race as ascribed, and arbitrary (p.132)
Hypodescent? President Obama?
Elizabeth Warren as Native American?
Political issues with the U.S. Census?
How do other societies conceptualize race? (Japan, Brazil)
Finish watching Crash
FOR NEXT TIME:
- Read Chapter 9: Gender, and prepare your Top Ten list
- ONLY: Jeyson, Denielle, Rebecca, Craig, Erin, Ashley, Maria, Mita, Dalia - prepare to facilitate a discussion on Chapter 9
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