Racial Discrimination

Racial Discrimination

Acts of Subtle Bias/Microaggressions

• Stereotypes, Jokes, Insensitive remarks, Accepting negative information while screening out positive information, Racial/Ethnic erasure, Cultural Appropriation

• Stereotype: Distorted image applied to a category of people

• Why are stereotypes harmful?

• Even "positive" stereotypes are harmful

Vocabulary Terms

Institutionalized Racism

• Stereotype: A distorted image applied to a category of people

• Minority: A group of people with differing physical or cultural traits

• Ethnic Minority: Group identified by cultural, religious, or national characteristics

• Genocide: The systematic effort to destroy an entire population

• Assimilation: The blending or fusing of minority groups into the dominant society

• Prejudice: Widely held negative attitude toward a group and its individual members

• Race: People sharing certain inherited physical characteristics that are considered important within a society

• Racism: An extreme form of prejudice that assumes superiority of one group over others

• Hate Crime: A criminal act motivated by prejudice

• Discrimination: Treating people differently based on ethnicity, race, religion, or culture

• Subjugation: Process by which a minority group is denied equal access to the benefits of a society

Poverty

• A large percentage of the nation's poor is made up of racial minorities
• Minorities are given less opportunities to move up socioeconomically

• Institutionalized racism is a pattern of social institutions — such as governmental organizations, schools, banks, and courts of law — giving negative treatment to a group of people based on their race.

• Institutionalized racism can be subtle, it does not have to be something outright discriminatory

• Examples: Education, law enforcement, jobs, legislation

Law Enforcement

Famous Civil Rights Movement Figures

• Racial minorities, especially Black people, are much more likely to face imprisonment or arrest than White people

• This is true despite that crime activity (such as drug use, shown in the graph) is virtually evenly distributed among the races

• Black people are also more likely to be victims of police brutality than any other race

Ruby Bridges

• The first African American child to attend an all-White school

Martin Luther King Jr.

• Led the Civil Rights Movement in the 50s-60s
• Famous speech - "I Have a Dream"
• Assassinated in 1968

Objectives

Malcolm X

• Civil rights leader
• 1963: Led the Unity Rally, one of the largest Civil Rights events
• Formed the organization of Afro American unity
• Assassinated in 1965

Rosa Parks

• Civil Rights Leaders
• Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Continued Civil Rights work even after arrest

• Learn and understand vocabulary, compare and contrast
• Be able to identify own race and ethnicity
• Identify different types of racial oppression and where they fall on the pyramid
• Identify and criticize institutionalized racism

Articles

Is Everyone a Little Bit Racist?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/opinion/nicholas-kristof-is-everyone-a-little-bit-racist.html?_r=0

Why Representation Matters

http://moralcommunities.com/representation-matters/

Discriminatory U.S. Laws

Black Male Teens are 21 Times More Likely to be killed by Cops than White Ones

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/10/3578877/black-teens-were-21-times-more-likely-to-be-shot-dead-by-the-cops-reported-deaths-suggest/

Race

Pyramid of Oppression

• Jim Crow laws: a practice or policy of segregating or discriminating against Black people, as in public places, public vehicles, or employment.
• Segregation: the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.
• Racial segregation was enforced by state laws until The Civil Rights Act of 1964 when all state and local laws regarding segregation were ended.
• Segregation forced racial minorities to live in poorer areas, leading to a cycle of poverty that still exists today
• Poll taxes and "literacy tests" were made to prevent racial minorities from voting

• Race: People sharing certain inherited physical characteristics that are considered important within a society.
• Different races, as defined by the U.S.:
• American Indian or Alaska Native
• A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment.
• Asian
• A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
• Black or African American
• A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
• Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
• A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.
• White
• A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.
• Can you identify your race(s)?
• According to the U.S. definitions of race and ethnicity, "Latino" and "Hispanic" actually fall under Ethnicities. This is because most Latin American countries are very racially diverse.

Ethnicity

• Group identified by cultural religious, or national characteristics.
• There are many types of ethnic groups:
• Ethno-racial
• Ethno-religious
• Ethno-linguistic
• Ethno-national
• Ethno-regional
• Ethnicities include terms such as Russians, Arabs, Han Chinese, Vietnamese, etc
• Your ethnicity depends on the factors listed above, in correlation with your racial identity
• Can you identify your ethnicity/ethnicities?

What does Racism do to young minds?

The Doll Test

Discrimination and Hate Crimes

Representation in Media

Miss America 2013 Winner, Nina Davuluri

• Discrimination based off of race or ethnicity comes in many forms

• Racism: practices, beliefs, social relations and phenomena that work to reproduce a racial hierarchy and social structure that yields superiority and privilege for some, and discrimination and oppression for others.

• Colorism: prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group.

• Xenophobia: intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.

• Why does representation matter?

• The media influences attitudes and stereotypes toward races

• Inclusiveness of ethnic minorities in the media playing many different roles can get rid of stereotypes

• Positive inclusiveness can also help young ethnic minorities feel more appreciated by society

What is a Hate Crime?

• A hate crime is a crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, typically one involving violence.