Racism and Prejudice

Question 1

Answer these questions according to the textbook Getting Real About Race by Stephanie McClure and Cherise Harris: Each answer should be at least 100 words each. NO PLAGIARISM

1. The sociological imagination allows us to be curious about the remarkably patterned features of our social lives, despite all our human diversity. Select three quotes from the list below, although probably spoken by 2 individuals who have never met, display strikingly similar frames and styles of colorblind racism. Why do you think these patterns of talking about race have taken hold so well in our society, and what function does it serve for society that these stories tend to be told like this?

Quotes

1. College educations were reserved for White, upper class, Protestant males (Rudolph 1962/1990)

2. Fordham and Ogbu (1986) argued that academic achievement was further discourages by negative sanctioning from Black peers, who labled academics effort and good grades as “acting white”.

3. Go into any inner city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can’t teach kids to learn…children can’t achieve unless we raise their expectations and…eradicate the slander that says Blacks youth with a book is acting white (then Senator Obama 2004).

4. While times have changed and other groups have gained access to higher education, many college campuses remain predominantly White U.S. Census Bureau, 2012).

5. Blacks moved to the North equipped with the most basic of skills and facing 200 year-old system of racism and prejudice (Blauner,2001; Steinberg, 20