Exam 8: Systemic Racism: Other Americans of Color

In _______, the American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded to aggressively resisted police brutality, housing discrimination, and employment discrimination.

The centuries-old white racial frame has been expanded by whites since the mid-nineteenth century to cover Latino, Asian, and other immigrants of color, as well as their many descendants.

A survey of professionals of color in government and non-profit workplaces found a minority of the Asian American male professionals reported racial and other discrimination.

According to Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey, will Mexican Americans soon move firmly into the middle class and thus become effectively "white" in both socioeconomic and racial terms? Why or why not?

Historian Ronald Takaki has pointed out that at an early point, Vietnamese immigrants were often associated "with blacks in the racial imagination of white society."

In interviews with third-generation Japanese Americans, Janice Tanaka found:

Housing discrimination is a serious problem for many Latinos, including:

In her recent study of the portrayals of Americans of South Asian descent in film and television, Shilpa Davé found:

Who are the Brown Berets?

Describe the white-to-black status continuum - the still-commonplace measuring stick of social acceptability.

Describe how the stress stemming from anti-Latino discrimination have had significant impacts on individual and community health.

The population of Americans who identify as multiracial is in decline.

Some scholarly and media analysts have argued that the growing population of "multiracial" Americans will eventually weaken or force a replacement of the conventional racial categories, and thus the dominant racial ladder. Explain the flaws in this thinking. Be sure to mention the research of Sharon Chang.

Reflecting on Joe Feagin's and Kimberley Ducey's discussion of hostility among subordinated groups, discuss how Asian Americans are purportedly being used to make the case against affirmative action.

Latino full-time workers have significantly higher unemployment rates than white workers.

Harms arising from the model-minority myth include:

Explain how racist framing is circulated in the mainstream media.

A national survey by the Pew Center found approximately one-fifth of first-generation and second-generation Latinos reported that being Latino hurt job promotion opportunities.

Well into the middle of the twentieth century, white state legislators and U.S. Congresspersons, publicly described ____________ as mixed-race "mongrels" or "inferior coloreds," often with reference to their "inferior" Indian or African "blood."

In 2017, analysts summarized patterns of anti-Asian discrimination, including: