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Social Problems
Professor Larry Stern
Reading Assignments, Videos & Web Sites
Unit 5: Racial & Ethnic Inequality: The Study of Prejudice and Discrimination
Power Point: Prejudice
Readings:
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, 2103
Pew Researh Center, Social and Demographic Trends, "On Views of Race and Inequality, Blacks and Whites Are Worlds Apart: About four-in-ten blacks are doubtful that the U.S. will ever achieve racial equality"
How blacks and whites view the state of race in America [interactive web page]
Monica Anderson & Paul Hitlin, "Social Media Conversations About Race: How social media users see, share and discuss race and the rise of hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter
Justin McCarthey, Americans Less Positive About Black Civil Rights Progress, Gallup Poll, August, 2015
Recommended:
Lisa Wade, "Flesh Colored," Sociological Images, November 8, 2011
Gwen Sharp, "Children's AttitudesToward 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
Visualizing Otherness - Nazi and Other Use of Visual Representation
Visualizing Otherness - Racist and Discriminatory Views of Afro-Americans in Popular Culture
Visualizing Otherness - Native Americans
Whiteness Studies: Deconstructing (the) Race
Hate on the Web:
The White Aryan Resistence
The Ku Klux Klan
Watch these Videos
"Ethnic Notions"
"If These Halls Could Talk," "The Color of Fear,""Last Chance of Eden"
“Race: The House We Live In – Part 3,” PBS
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