Exam 8: Systemic Racism: Other Americans of Color

______________, a 2010 legislative Act, would require police officers to request information from any person they thought looked like an undocumented Mexican immigrant.

North Dakota University dumped the "Fighting Sioux Mascot" in _________.

Discuss the impact of Donald Trump's 2016 election win on anti-Latino discrimination. Be sure to discuss Trump's speeches in which he has made aggressively racist verbal attacks on Latino immigrants and other Latinos, as well as on other Americans of color.

At the University of Winnipeg (UW), where Kimberley Ducey (the junior author of Racist America) teaches, the Indigenous Course Requirement (ICR) made Indigenous learning part of the undergraduate degree requirements for all inbound students beginning in 2016. This is one part of an Indigenization strategy and is central to the university's fulfillment of its academic mission to engage with the society in which it is situated. According to the University of Winnipeg's website: The University . . . is located on Treaty One [between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government] land in the heart of the Métis Nation [major Indigenous group]. The treaties are agreements which benefit all people, and opened up these lands for settlement. The Métis played a pivotal role in bringing our province into confederation. We believe that as a post-secondary institution, therefore, we must provide an excellent academic experience which is also grounded in the territory in which it is located. This means providing our students with an understanding of the local history, cultures, contemporary issues, languages, and ways of knowing of local Indigenous peoples. . . . The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has recommended that Indigenous content be taught to future educators, lawyers, health care professionals, social workers, newcomers, public sector employees, and everyone in the private sector. In short, in order for reconciliation with Indigenous peoples to be possible, everyone in Canada, including every student at The University of Winnipeg, should be helped to learn a baseline of knowledge about First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. Do you think a similar ICR would be helpful for U.S. colleges and universities? Why or why not?

In one survey, substantial majorities of Latino respondents thought that the proverbial American dream was not available to their group.

Explain why housing discrimination is a serious problem for many Latinos.

Describe the California studies that documented white political and business leaders framing of Asian descended people.

_________________ research examines how race shapes public policy in areas such as redistricting, economic development, and historic preservation.

Model-minority imagery circulated in the mainstream media deflects public attention from Asian community problems, including the fact that:

Describe the differing views of African, Asian, and Latino Americans when it comes to societal opportunities.

In her important contemporary book on raising multiracial children, white author Donna Jackson Nakazawa, who has multiracial children, makes inaccurate suggestions about the age at which children learn racial matters (much younger than she suggests).

The first Mexican residents of the U.S. did not immigrate, but were brought into the U.S. as a result of the Mexican-American War of the 1840s.

A system of ____________ serves as a basis for sub-ethnic identities, intraethnic social boundaries, internalized racial oppression, and the monitoring and control of social behavior.

In some settings, in the past and the present, Mexican Americans have been able to fight discrimination better than African Americans because:

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 what about the "Chinese race"?

Social science research strongly indicates that ______________ is more important in shaping increases in certain states' anti-immigrant legislation than actual numbers of immigrants.

How do local state officials, via such strategies as police profiling, collude in the federal deportation system?

The extent of discrimination reported by Latinos was found to vary directly with the extent of anti-immigrant policies in the states where the respondents resided.

Discuss how research evidence regarding the increasing number of interracial couples, and thus of multiracial children, exposes the persisting and well-institutionalized power and privilege of whites. Continuing Racial Framing and Discrimination:

Discuss studies that show the pressure on Americans of color, and especially immigrants and their children, to strongly orient themselves to whites and whiteness.