Key Terms
Exam #1 – CES 101
Mrs. Phipps
Extinction Thesis
1790 Naturalization Act
1-Drop Rule
Eugenics
Win Tribe
Race
Homer Plessy
Redlining
Blockbusting
Restrictive covenants
FHA (and discrimination/institutional racism during this process)
Home Owner Association
White Flight
Colorblindness
Racism
Prejudice
Discrimination
Institutional Racism
Meritocracy
Rubin Research
Cultural Racism
Colorblind racism
Racial Inequality and drowning deaths
Johnson-Reid Act
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Leo Frank
“In Between Peoples”
Takao Ozawa
Bhagat Singh Thind
Sharecropping
Contract Buyers League
Dawes Act
“Kill the Indian, Save the Man”
Jim Crow
Sharecropping
Implicit Bias
By the numbers
- Data on Employment discrimination (call backs)
- Housing Discrimination and Race
- Black/White wealth disparities
- NYPD “stop and frisk” policies
- Katherine Becket Seattle Study
- Crack/Cocaine ratio
- Patrick Sharkey’s research shows that black families making $______ typically live in the kinds of neighborhoods inhabited by white families making ______
- According to Coates “white households are worth roughly ____ times as much as black households”
- What percentage of whites in 2008 said they were not willing to live in neighborhood that was more than half black
- On average whites inherit $_______ dollars more than black families
- White middle families have ______ times wealth of equally achieving blacks
Questions
- What’s the difference between equity and equality
- What conversations about race does Jay Smooth encourage us to have
- What are 10 things everyone should know about race?
- How did whites in Chicago preserve segregation
- What impact did Ozawa and Thind have on Japanese farmers
- What’s the difference between color-blindness and color consciousness
- According to Williams, this is the opposite of color-blindness
- What sort of home loans were black families steered toward/pushed into during the 2000s
- What proposals does Coates offer to deal with history of racism and its persistent impact on opportunities and outcomes
- What is the difference between active and passive racism
- What are the dangers in colorblindness; how does it impact status quo
- In Virginia, how did the state classify if someone was black? What about Mississippi
- In Thind, what explanations did court use to explain why South Asians were not white; how was this different from ruling Ozawa
- How did Eastern and Southern Europeans become white
- What happened when Jose changed his name to Joe on his resume?