Unit 6: Race, Prejudice and Discrimination
Readings:
Macionis, Society: The Basics, Chapter 11 ("Race and Ethnicity")
Tara Bahrampour, "'You are not going to let that word hurt you’: Procter & Gamble ad taking on racism is met with praise — and outrage," The Washington Post, August 4, 2017
Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
Robert Jensen, "White Privilege Shapes the U.S." and "More thoughts on why the system of white privilege is wrong."
David J. Leonard, "#PlayingWhileWhite: The Colin Kaepernick Saga and the (A)political White Athlete," The Society Pages, April 14, 2017
Tim Wise, "Reflections on Racism, Both Individual and Systemic," Sociological Images, February 26, 2013
Justin McCarthey, Americans Less Positive About Black Civil Rights Progress, Gallup Poll, August, 2015
Pew Researh Center, Social and Demographic Trends, "On Views of Race and Inequality, Blacks and Whites are Worlds Apart," June 27, 2016
How blacks and whites view the state of race in America [interactive web page]
Alvin Chang, "School segregation didn’t go away. It just evolved: How parents are gerrymandering school borders and fencing out poor kids," Vox, July 27, 2017
Lisa Hix, How America Bought and Sold Racism, and Why It Still Matters — Collectors Weekly, November 10, 2015
Lisa Wade, "Flesh Colored," Sociological Images, November 8, 2011
Gwen Sharp, "Children's Attitudes Toward Skin Color"- View the CNN Report
Gwen Sharp, "Children's Perceptions of Race and Friendship" - View the Anderson Cooper Report
Listen to the following interview:
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, National Public Radio, January 16, 2012
Visit the following Web Sites:
The Negro Motorist Green Book, New York Public Library Digital Collection
Without Sanctuary: watch the Flash movie (warning: this has disturbing photographs of lynchings in the U.S.)
Virtual Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
Race: The Power of an Illusion: Complete the Race Sorting Exercise
Southern Poverty Law Center: Hate Map and Hatewatch Blog
Fight Hate and Promote Tolerance
Stereoypes of the Irish
Stereotypes of Jewish People
Stereotypes of East Asians in the US
Old 'Yellow Peril' Anti-Chinese Posters
Movies:
"Ethnic Notions"
"If These Halls Could Talk," "The Color of Fear,"
"Last Chance of Eden"
“Race: The House We Live In – Part 3,” PBS