1. America’s new tobacco crisis: The rich stopped smoking, the poor didn’t 2. The math of mass shootings 3. American exceptionalism and the ‘exceptionally American’ problem of mass shootings 4. And mass shootings are happening more frequently 5. Native American Reservation Map 6. Native American Population Map 7. One-in-four Native Americans and Alaska Natives are living in poverty 8. Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hJFi7SRH7Q
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*50 years after Loving, 1 in 6 new couples are racially mixed
1. The "myth" of race. How is this idea different from how most people think about race? 2. The history of race in America. 3. How does race impact the lives of people in America?
4. Here are more subtle, and less obvious, examples of white privilege.
Extra Credit Assignment - The White Privilege Assignment Imagine that you are a 34 year old African American single woman with a young child. You have just met this gorgeous man who has asked you for a date in two days. You really want to make an impression on him so you intend to go to a grocery store to buy a few things that you will need to get ready for your date. While you are in the kitchen, trying to write your shopping list, making supper, and watching your 6 year-old daughter, you somehow manage to cut your finger. You use the last bandage you have at home and add "bandages" to your shopping list. Your shopping list now lists the following items:
Because you are African American, you want to make sure that you buy bandages, silk stockings, and blemish cover/make-up in a color that matches your skin color. Similarly, you will buy a fashion magazine created for an African American audience that gives beauty and fashion tips to African American women. Also, you feel that your daughter should develop a strong African American identity, so you intend to buy a children's book and a toy that feature pictures/stories/etc. of other African American children. Because your friend is an African American woman, you'll buy a humorous birthday card, featuring African American cartoon figures. Finally, in case things don't work out with the date, you want to read a romance novel written by an African American author featuring African American people. Go to a grocery, department, or drug store and try to find the articles listed on the shopping list. Do not buy the products, just to try to find them. After your shopping experience, answer the following questions: 1. Were you able to find all the items listed on the shopping list? Which items did you find? Which ones were you not able to find? 2. If you found items from the shopping list, how did they compare in price to comparable products for European American customers? 3. If you found items from the shopping list, how many different companies or manufacturers (e.g., Almay, Cover Girl, and Revlon) produced African American products, and how many different companies/manufacturers produced comparable products for European American customers? In other words, would you be able to choose from a number of different products? 4. Assuming that you, as an African American woman, encountered some difficulties in deciding on certain beauty products (e.g., making decisions regarding the best color of blemish cover to use), whom in the store would you ask for help? Is there an African American sales person around? Are there other African American women in the store that might be able to advise you? 5. If you were to encounter problems with one of the sales people and you wanted to talk to the manager, who would the manager be, an African American man or woman or a European American man or woman? 6. Having answered these questions, how do you as an African American woman feel? HW - Start working on Final Essay
1. Read this article on the policing tactic called Stop and frisk.
2. Go here to see a data visualization of all "Stop and Frisk" stops by the NYPD in 2012. 3. Watch this video about Stop and Frisk in NYC victim? 4. The problem with the "white culture of violence" 5. FBI 2010 National Crime Statistics - who really commits the most crime? 6. The "myth" of race. How is this idea different from how most people think about race? 8. The history of race in America. 9. How does race impact the lives of people in America?
HW - Start working on Final Essay
1. Read this article on the policing tactic called Stop and frisk.
2. Go here to see a data visualization of all "Stop and Frisk" stops by the NYPD in 2012. 3. Watch this video about Stop and Frisk in NYC victim? 4. Big/Essential Idea - "Race is a social construction" (video 1, video 2)
4. How does race impact the lives of people in America?
HW - Start working on Final Essay
1. Santa Claus Should Not Be a White Man Anymore
2. The response to this "controversial" statement 3. What is RACE?
4. How does race impact the lives of people in America?
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