Race: Dividing up the World

Our Objectives

SWBAT give examples of how race has been used as a tool of divisiveness

SWBAT to see how the hegemony has been able to change the definition of race over time

Lets review a little bit

Define the term culture What is affected by culture? Does culture have a plural or

singular nature?

What is race? In your own words? How have we redefined the word

race? What is the biological foundation of

race? Where did the concept race originate

from? Why did the people in charge feel a

need to separate the races?

Slavery of the mind

For generations I would argue that in the US, the concept of race has been polarized between black and white.

How do you think the recent immigration issues in the US may challenge those views?

Race has been a huge issue since…

The American Revolution Who had privileges of full

citizenship? White males

Wait, I have an idea!

Read through paragraph 3

What other groups were in the US at the time?

How did Congress react to Charles Sumners Suggestion?

What words were used to describe the “others”?

Why do you think that other groups were described like this?

But what question does that leave?

Who is white? Who decides who is white? Read through paragraph 4

In the United States…

Who was making the distinction of whiteness?

Were the Chinese considered white?

What were they?

I’ll read paragraph 5 aloud

Armenians? Hawaiians? Turks? Indians? Mexicans? Native Americans?

According to Mathew Frye Jacobson, race has been used to guard what?

Not for understanding global relationships among the world’s people.

SOOOOOO SMART! Paragraph 6

Takao Ozawa Japanese immigrant Petitioned the court US citizen 1875 law=Africans are citizens Also, Judges had previously ruled Anyone not black was white

So did Takao Ozawa get his citizenship?

Read paragraph 7 to find out?

Did He?

Why?

WTH??? White but not Caucasian? Caucasian but not white?

What is Caucasian anyway?

Take out your phones and Ipods!

Google Caucasian! What does it mean?

Lets take a look @ p.8

Immigration 1924

Who’s being included? Who’s being excluded?

1965 Who’s being included? Who’s being excluded?

P.9 1991-1994

Who’s being included? Who’s being excluded?

WHO?

Lets check for understanding

Who decides which differences matter?

How is that point of view enforced? What do the Supreme Court rulings

suggest about the meaning of race? What do they suggest about race

and its relationship to power?

Lets take a look at your table

Census-I looked for the results of the 2010 census-empty handed

What do the numbers suggest about the 1965 law?

What do they suggest about the 1990 law?

Angelo Ancheta believes…

That the 1990 law has racial and ethnic biases built into it.

What are those biases?How are they held to the ones

held in earlier US history?What differences seem most

striking?

Now! Rodney King & the LA Riots

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