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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