Exam 8: Systemic Racism: Other Americans of Color

Strong white endorsement of the model minority myth is frequently linked to more positive views of Asian Americans.

For Native Americans, land and the environment have long been viewed much differently than they are for most whites. Indeed, a common Native American framing of white society involves a critique of whites' lack of respect for the natural environment and their monetary greed and human insensitivity. Explain.

In late 1920s, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned laws placing Chinese Americans in racially segregated black (not white) schools.

A 2006 Psychology Today article titled, "Mixed Race, Pretty Face?", detailed a study suggesting part-Asians are considered more beautiful than their monoracial counterparts. Such pieces lauding the beauty of mixed race peoples abound and are an example of:

The treatment of Americans of color has varied according to all the following EXCEPT:

In 1896, even as he defended some rights for blacks as the lone dissenter in the Plessy v. Ferguson anti-black segregation case, the white Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan said the ________ were "so different … that we do not permit those belonging to it to become citizens of the United States."

Native Americans were not integrated as a group into the core economic and political institutions when the U.S. was a new country.

African Americans seem to be generally less realistic about the racialized character of the proverbial "American dream," and more likely than other Americans of color to accept the conventional rhetoric of the white racial frame in this regard.

James Phelan, who represented California in the U.S. Senate from 1915 to 1921, claimed that Japanese immigrants were a threat to the "future" of the white race, U.S. institutions, and Western civilization. Describe how Phelan's views are quire similar to those of prominent whites in the age of Trump.

Recent research indicates that well-institutionalized discrimination has slowed the socioeconomic success of major Latino groups, such as the largest group, ___________.

Recently, researcher Celia Olivia Lacayo interviewed a random sample of 40 mostly well-educated middle-class and upper-class whites in Orange County, who:

Unlike European immigrant groups in the early twentieth century, the growing group of third-generation ____________ has not been able to exceed the socioeconomic achievements of the second generation.

In Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, when several whites beat a Mexican American to death while yelling racist epithets and "This is America. Go back to Mexico." The attackers were sentenced to _____________.

Describe the types of discrimination faced by Latino professionals in the workplace.

Initially, the white view of Chinese immigrants stressed their similarity to African Americans in inferior racial status, while over time the dimension of foreignness was given decreasing emphasis.

Some contemporary social analysts view the children and grandchildren of recent Asian and Latino immigrants, as well as descendants of earlier immigrants in these groups, as progressively blending into the dominant white group and thereby becoming "white." Explain their argument.

Suzan Shown Harjo remarked: "[Y]ou never put racism up to a popular vote, because racism will win every time. It's not up to the offending class to say what offends the offended." Illustrate her argument.

Surveys have found that the majority of Latino Americans typically see themselves as white when they are allowed to choose from an array of options.

Describe the views of nativistic analysts who do not view Latino and Asian immigrants and their children as white or as blending well into a white-dominated society.

Numerous researchers have noted the ways in which oppression becomes internalized when Americans of color adopt negative racially or ethnically framed views about their own group.