Topic
Social Science
Instructions
Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.
- Identify and define at least 5 fallacies about racism.
- What areas of life does racism affect?
- Define the two types of racism (institutional and interpersonal).
- What is symbolic violence when it comes to race?
- At one time Jews dominated basketball; now it is a game almost exclusively for African Americans. The text authors identify at least two reasons why both of these groups came to dominate the game? What are those reasons?
- Which group of people erected the original section of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.?
- List at least 5 examples of how whiteness surrounds us though it often goes unnamed.
- Define the phrase “white privilege.” Give at least 3 examples.
- Who wrote, “Color is not a human or personal reality; it is a political reality.”
- Why do the authors argue that race is a symbolic category?
- What is the difference between race and ethnicity?
- Briefly describe the case of Abdullah Dolla.
- Has race always remained a fixed category in the U.S. or is it more fluid?
- Who is Tim Wise?
- He argues that before 1600 there was no such thing as the white race. What happened to change this?
- What were indentured servants? Where did they come from?
- According to Wise, what was the U.S. Civil War fought over?
- Name a few of the “carrots” slave owners threw out to poor whites.
- How did slavery undermine white working class job?
- What did Chalmette, Louisiana do after Hurricane Katrina to keep the town white?
Answer preview
The five fallacies about racism include
- Individualistic fallacy: assumes that racism is alleged as the only being structural realities, disregards systemic and it is interpersonal.
- Legalistic fallacy: presumes that eliminating racist legislations automatically results to the ending of racism in practice
- Tokenistic fallacy
- Historical fallacy: deems the time when fundamental basic rights were not prolonged to POC is irrelevant in contemporary world.
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