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=Emily Gallagher, Brett Rodgers, Brock Lally= =Chapter 9: Inequalities of Race and Ethnicity=


 * Majorities see themselves as more valuable than minorities while the minorities compete against each other and the majority.
 * Majorities and minorites have blended together better than they did when civil rights was first an issue.
 * Prejudice, Racism, and Discrimination are inevitable in a melting pot society.
 * Segregation was used to prevent conflict between races, but did not work entirely well.

[|Inequalities Between Races Skyrocket] [|Racism as Ideology] [|Inequality, Race, and Remedy]

[|Carmen and Rarmold] [|Inequality of Races] [|Overview of Wiki]

=Defining Race - Emily Gallagher= Bologists use characteristics such as skin color, hair color, hair texture, facial features, eye color, and height to determine race. Although physical characteristics associate people with race. Some argue that certain physical characteristics that are associated with a race that is superior to other races, but there is no scientific evidence that connects racial characteristics to superiority or insuperiority. For example an Asian's narrow opening between eyelids protects against bright lights, but this doesnt make people with narrow eyelids superior to people without them. No one race is superior to another. media type="youtube" key="oU9zCz4wjzQ" width="425" height="350"media type="youtube" key="VA7La5JgOUk" width="425" height="350" media type="youtube" key="yJnIbsfU8Do" width="425" height="350" [|Article]

=Assimilation- Emily Gallagher= Assimilation is the blending of minority groups. It has taken many forms such as Anglo- conformity, melting pot, cultural pluralism, and accommodation. Anglo-conformity is the most common pattern of assimilation. Anglo- is used to indicate an American descent. In Anglo conformity American institutions are maintained. The melting pot is where are ethnic and racial minorities are blended together. Cultural pluralism is the desire of a group to maintain some sense of identity separate from the dominate group, and accommodation is a very extreme form of accommodation. It occurs when a minority maintains its own culturally unique way of life. media type="youtube" key="Ri7mM4gIfOo" width="425" height="350" media type="youtube" key="jDG0-Z8ruuk" width="425" height="350"media type="youtube" key="WJLyTNIevWA" width="425" height="350" Evidence of AssimilationAssimilation and Ethnic IdentityAssimilation adds to the melting pot Article
 * Race and Ethnicity
 * Overview on Races
 * Different Races

=**Prejudice, Racism, and Discrimination - Brock Lally**= __Book definitions of all three:__ //Prejudice -// widely held negative views and attitudes toward a group (minority or majority) and its individual members //Racism -// an extreme form of prejudice that assumes superiority of one group over others //Discrimination -// treating people differently based on ethnicity, race, religion, or culture

Functionalist Perspective: Functionalists tend to focus on the dysfucntions caused by these practices. While minorities are exploited and oppresed, the social, political, educational, and economic costs to society are increased dramatically. The safety and stability of a large society with many races are at more risk than smaller societies, as far as prejudicial problems are concerned. The majority groups feel more confident over the minority groups and their self-concept and confidence are generally strengthened within their own group.

Conflict Perspective: A majority uses discrimination and prejudice as weapons of power to control and manipulate a minority. They do this to increase control over goods, property, and other resources. I.e. Colonists over Native Americans. Different minorities view each other as competition, not allies as they ultimately compete against the majority.

Symbolic Interactionist Perspective: Members of a society learn to be prejudiced the same way they learn to be patriotic. Children may over their parents saying prejudiced statements, but haven't learned to separate people by race. Later in life, children are able to use physical appearances to sort people into groups. If young children often hear parents use slander against a minority, more often than not that child will become prejudiced against that group as well.

[|Prejudice, Racism, And Discrimination] [|Defining and Investigating Racial Prejudice] [|Further Explanations of Racism]

[|Brian Caponi's Take on Racism] [|English Prejudice Toward US] [|Examples of Discrimination]

[|Article on Prejudice]



=Subjugation - Brock Lally=

__Various definitions:__ //Subjugation -// process by which a minority group is denied equal access to the benefits of society //De Facto Segregation -// denial of equal access based on everyday practices //De Jure Segregation - denial of equal access based on the law// Segregation is often remembered as the ruling in the first Brown v. Board of Education, which started the "Separate but Equal" law. Black schools were created, but of much lesser quality than white schools. Conditions were much worse in black schools: desks were taken from the junk yard, books were more out of date than the books the white schools possessed, and more.

Pros: Races were very tense in their encounters prior to the ruling, but they were separated and violence rate decreased slightly. Cons: They really weren't completely equal. Whites had it better.

[|Segregation and Civil Rights] [|Brown v. Board of Education - Topeka] [|Definition of Segregation]



[|Guido Segregation] [|Segregation Pattern] [|Brown vs. Board of Education]

[|Article on Rising Segregation Rates]

=Stereotypes - Brett Rodgers= //stereotype// - a distorted, exaggerated, or oversimplified image applied to a category of people

__Examples:__
 * African Americans are fast
 * Asians are good at math and can't drive
 * Middle Easterners are terrorists
 * Irish people have drinking problems
 * Italians are in the Mafia.
 * Jewish people are good with money, and greedy
 * Mexicans are illegal
 * British people like tea and crumpets
 * MANY MORE
 * (they're not all necessarily true, just common stereotypes throughout America

Stereotypes may or may not be true, but they're mostly an unfair assumption about a group of people. Some are negative, some are positive.

[|Stereotypes of Everyone] [|Idea Of Stereotyping] [|Top 10 Most Common Stereotypes]

[|Monty vs. JT] [|Asian Kid] [|Stereotypes of Everyone]


 * ==Imagine it is 2 AM, and you are walking by yourself down a poorly lit street. Four different men passed by at four different times. All four men are the same height and weight. Which man would you feel the most threatened by? == ||  ||
 * __The Black man__ || [[image:https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/vl_gBtKOrpk2TPHSCuSwjiAP53ZsEW7CzFiHSZqXIiZd-uR2lyEmTdTvMQRvR8ukkwblQJn3cr5ERXWL_sgM9eV9n45k68inzQnKCBQFhB03xpAdjeA width="25" height="16"]]*(12; 21%) ||  ||
 * __The White man__ || [[image:https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/vl_gBtKOrpk2TPHSCuSwjiAP53ZsEW7CzFiHSZqXIiZd-uR2lyEmTdTvMQRvR8ukkwblQJn3cr5ERXWL_sgM9eV9n45k68inzQnKCBQFhB03xpAdjeA width="8" height="16"]]*(4; 7%) ||  ||
 * __The Asian man__ || [[image:https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/vl_gBtKOrpk2TPHSCuSwjiAP53ZsEW7CzFiHSZqXIiZd-uR2lyEmTdTvMQRvR8ukkwblQJn3cr5ERXWL_sgM9eV9n45k68inzQnKCBQFhB03xpAdjeA width="16" height="16"]]*(8; 14%) ||  ||
 * __The Hispanic man__ || [[image:https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/vl_gBtKOrpk2TPHSCuSwjiAP53ZsEW7CzFiHSZqXIiZd-uR2lyEmTdTvMQRvR8ukkwblQJn3cr5ERXWL_sgM9eV9n45k68inzQnKCBQFhB03xpAdjeA width="8" height="16"]]*(4; 7%) ||  ||
 * __None of them__ || [[image:https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/vl_gBtKOrpk2TPHSCuSwjiAP53ZsEW7CzFiHSZqXIiZd-uR2lyEmTdTvMQRvR8ukkwblQJn3cr5ERXWL_sgM9eV9n45k68inzQnKCBQFhB03xpAdjeA width="16" height="16"]]*(8; 14%) ||  ||

[|Article - The Stereotypical American]

=Hate Crimes- Brett Rodgers= [|Wiki- Hate Crimes] [|Hate Crime Issues] [|FBI Stats In 2010]

Article [|__http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/washington/07hate.html?ref=hatecrimes__]

[|News On White Teen] [|Hate Aganist Gays] [|Canton Hate Crime]

Hate Crimes-A Criminal act motivated by prejudice <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Hate Crimes have been a problem in America for a long time; people have been fighting and hurting other people of another race, or Ethnicity. I can’t see anything good from hate crimes and people getting hurt from someone that they might not even know because of their race. This really has affected society for kids that are growing up seeing this. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2011 there were about 6,624 crimes and 47.3% of these were based on race. 4,824 hate crimes 46.2% were assault to the person. Seven murders were reported because of these hate crimes. 2,861 hate crimes were vandalism to houses and cars. Many of the crimes have happened accorded near or in a home. Hate crimes have been a problem for longer then you know it has stated long time ago and could be the KKK, American Family Association. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">