SOC269 Glenn Tsunokai - Exam 2
Questions And Verified Answers
\Q\.Critical Race Theory (CRT) - ANSWER-✔a paradigm used to generate insights into the
contemporary racial predicament, exposing how racial stratification is more powerful or
enduring than is initially apparent
- through eyes of people of color
- challenges prevailing perspectives
- utilizes storytelling & counter-storytelling
\Q\.Critical Race Theory states that... - ANSWER-✔1. Racism is ordinary, not an aberration
2. The current system of white-over-color ascendency serves important purposes
3. Race and races are products of social thought and relations
4. Dominant society racialize different minority groups at different times
5. shared experience among people of color - may not be known among white people
6. Seek to propagate social justice
\Q\.Noel Hypothesis - ANSWER-✔If two or more groups come together in a contact situation
characterized by ethnocentrism, competition, and a differential in power, then some form of
racial or ethnic stratification will result
\Q\.Blauner Hypothesis - ANSWER-✔states that minority groups created by colonization,
because it is forced on them, experience a greater degree of racism and discrimination than
those created by voluntary immigration.
- alteration/destruction of indigenous culture & patterns of social organization
,- domination of indigenous population by members of invading society
- justification of such activities with prejudicial, racist beliefs and stereotypes
- Paternalistic relations / Caste system
\Q\.Group Threat Model - ANSWER-✔When the majority group is threatened by a minority
group's emergence due to competition
- feeling that sub. group is intrinsically different
- feeling of proprietary claim to certain privilege and advantages
- feeling of suspicion that sub. group harbors designs on prerogatives of the dominant race
\Q\.Cultural Encapsulation - ANSWER-✔a lack of contact with cultures outside of our own,
promotes insensitivity to cultural differences
\Q\.Chattel - ANSWER-✔an item of personal, movable property; slave
\Q\.5 central components of slavery - ANSWER-✔1. Slavery was for life
2. The status was inherited
3. Slaves were considered mere property
4. Slaves were denied rights
5. Coercion was used to maintain the system
\Q\.Why were Africans selected to be slaves instead of Native Americans? - ANSWER-
✔Africans...
- were physically very different
- not Christian
- unfamiliar with territory (unlike Native Americans)
, - lacked organization
- ideological belief that they were different
\Q\.Dred Scott Decision - ANSWER-✔The Supreme Court ruled that African Americans had no
rights which whites were bound to respect.
- Could never become US citizens
- Constitution did not protect them
\Q\.Emancipation Proclamation - ANSWER-✔Proclaimed slaves to be free and authorized the
armed forces of the United States to enlist free slaves
\Q\.13th Amendment - ANSWER-✔Abolition of slavery
\Q\.Civil Rights Act - ANSWER-✔Declared Blacks to be citizens of the US, gave them equal
rights, and gave federal courts jurisdiction over cases arising under the act.
\Q\.14th Amendment - ANSWER-✔Declared that states could not deprive any person of life,
liberty, or property without 'due process of law'
\Q\.Backlash against African Americans after the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation,
Civil Rights Act, 13th and 14th Amendment - ANSWER-✔- KKK
- Jim Crow Laws
- Voting restrictions
- Separate but Equal (Plessy v. Ferguson)
\Q\.Jim Crow Laws - ANSWER-✔Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
Questions And Verified Answers
\Q\.Critical Race Theory (CRT) - ANSWER-✔a paradigm used to generate insights into the
contemporary racial predicament, exposing how racial stratification is more powerful or
enduring than is initially apparent
- through eyes of people of color
- challenges prevailing perspectives
- utilizes storytelling & counter-storytelling
\Q\.Critical Race Theory states that... - ANSWER-✔1. Racism is ordinary, not an aberration
2. The current system of white-over-color ascendency serves important purposes
3. Race and races are products of social thought and relations
4. Dominant society racialize different minority groups at different times
5. shared experience among people of color - may not be known among white people
6. Seek to propagate social justice
\Q\.Noel Hypothesis - ANSWER-✔If two or more groups come together in a contact situation
characterized by ethnocentrism, competition, and a differential in power, then some form of
racial or ethnic stratification will result
\Q\.Blauner Hypothesis - ANSWER-✔states that minority groups created by colonization,
because it is forced on them, experience a greater degree of racism and discrimination than
those created by voluntary immigration.
- alteration/destruction of indigenous culture & patterns of social organization
,- domination of indigenous population by members of invading society
- justification of such activities with prejudicial, racist beliefs and stereotypes
- Paternalistic relations / Caste system
\Q\.Group Threat Model - ANSWER-✔When the majority group is threatened by a minority
group's emergence due to competition
- feeling that sub. group is intrinsically different
- feeling of proprietary claim to certain privilege and advantages
- feeling of suspicion that sub. group harbors designs on prerogatives of the dominant race
\Q\.Cultural Encapsulation - ANSWER-✔a lack of contact with cultures outside of our own,
promotes insensitivity to cultural differences
\Q\.Chattel - ANSWER-✔an item of personal, movable property; slave
\Q\.5 central components of slavery - ANSWER-✔1. Slavery was for life
2. The status was inherited
3. Slaves were considered mere property
4. Slaves were denied rights
5. Coercion was used to maintain the system
\Q\.Why were Africans selected to be slaves instead of Native Americans? - ANSWER-
✔Africans...
- were physically very different
- not Christian
- unfamiliar with territory (unlike Native Americans)
, - lacked organization
- ideological belief that they were different
\Q\.Dred Scott Decision - ANSWER-✔The Supreme Court ruled that African Americans had no
rights which whites were bound to respect.
- Could never become US citizens
- Constitution did not protect them
\Q\.Emancipation Proclamation - ANSWER-✔Proclaimed slaves to be free and authorized the
armed forces of the United States to enlist free slaves
\Q\.13th Amendment - ANSWER-✔Abolition of slavery
\Q\.Civil Rights Act - ANSWER-✔Declared Blacks to be citizens of the US, gave them equal
rights, and gave federal courts jurisdiction over cases arising under the act.
\Q\.14th Amendment - ANSWER-✔Declared that states could not deprive any person of life,
liberty, or property without 'due process of law'
\Q\.Backlash against African Americans after the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation,
Civil Rights Act, 13th and 14th Amendment - ANSWER-✔- KKK
- Jim Crow Laws
- Voting restrictions
- Separate but Equal (Plessy v. Ferguson)
\Q\.Jim Crow Laws - ANSWER-✔Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
