ETH125, Diversity

ProjectETH/125 - Cultural Diversity – Kelli Rodriguez

July 28, 2014 – September 28, 2014

THOMAS BRANTLEY

Racial and Ethnic Diversity

Race

Ethnicity

Diverse Nation

Racial and Ethnic Diversity

America

Race:

White 63%

Black/African American 11.2%

Native American 0.8%

Asian American 4.6%

Ethnicity

German 16.5%

Irish 12%

English 9%

Italian 5.9%

Polish 3.3%

French 3.1%

Scottish 3.1%

Jew 2.1%

Hispanics 16.3%

(Schaefer, 2012, p. 5).

Race

White Black Native Asian

Ethnicity

German Irish English Italian Polish

French Scottish Jew Hispanic

Racial and Ethnic Diversity

Horn Lake, MS

Total Population as of 2010 Census: 26,066

Race:

White 59%

Black/African American 32.9

Asian 1%

Other/mixed or not specified 1.7%

Ethnicity

Hispanics 8%

2010 Census Data

White Black Asian Other

Racial and Ethnic Diversity

Race diversity projections

White

Black/African American

Hispanic

Asian/Other

Projections by 2050

White Black Hispanic Asian/Other

(Schaefer, 2012, p. 6).

How Similar Are We?

Phase I

Phase II

Phase III

All humans (no matter their race) share 99.9% of the

same genes.

How Similar Are We?Phase IFirst thought

Where did we really start?

Biblical thought

Skeptical?

How Similar Are We?Phase IIMigration?

Ice age recedes

Colder Climates

Warmer Climates

How Similar Are We?Phase IIIThe true founders of America

DNA and Genetics

Physiological Differences

Skeptical

Is this really everything?

Social Construct of

Diversity

Social Beliefs

Race is not only identified by color

Mixed Race = ?

Color + Scenario = Race

Social Construct of

DiversityDr. Seuss's “Sneetches” (12 minutes):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPhOZzsi_6Q

Young children suffer from discrimination

Sales person similar to our government

Beyond differences all are the same

Star bellied sneeches are better

“Tink, twink, twinkle, twinkle stupid little star.”

Social Construct of

DiversityDiversity = Division

Religion

Politics

Sexual orientation

Sports

Social Construct of

DiversityDiscrimination has many forms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niyGPfw

nnjM

Stereotypical inhibitor of talent and potential

How accepting of Diversity are

you?You have completed the African American - European American IAT.

Your Result

Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for African American compared to

European American.

Race Relations Today(Time Wise Speech)

Self-Righteousness

Tired of living in the funk of the past

Guilt Versus responsibility

Living in the Past

The confederate war versus slavery

Race Relations Today(Time Wise Speech)

Wealth Disparities

Median Net worth of White Families

11 times more than black Families

8 times more than Latino Families

Different Lenses

Did white families really get everything on their own?

Small Government and Low Taxes

Tax rates of 91% in the 1950s

Race Relations Today(Time Wise Speech)

Land and Housing Assistance

Homestead act of 1862

White middle class was formed

Interstate Highway program

Destroying communities of Black communities

20 percent of black communities destroyed

Race Relations Today(Time Wise Speech)

During the Great Depression

Welfare created for White Widows

Immigrants

White immigrants given jobs immediately

Jobs where off limits to people of color

Race Relations Today(Time Wise Speech)

Media

Glen Beck on Health Care

Rush Limbaugh

Pushing buttions

Education

La Raza Studies in AZ

Creating hatred?

600 thousand Mexican imigrants

Pearl harbor and 911

Race Relations Today(Time Wise Speech)

Don’t talk about problems?

World Hunger

Crime

Education

Everyone has a Ground Zero

Pearl harbor and 911

Banks and financiers

Choctaw Chickasaw Creek

Race Relations Today(Time Wise Speech)

Obama

“Where not a Black America, a White America, a Latino America, an Asian

America, We’re the United States of America.”

Was this a lie?

Race Relations Today(Time Wise Speech)

Jobs

Names mean everything

White sounding names

College Degrees

Black

Latino

Asian

Race Relations Today(Time Wise Speech)

12 Trillion American dollars GONE!

245 million acers of land

120 billion dollars of housing

Race Relations Today(Time Wise Speech)

Power and privilege

Equality

Race Relations Today(Time Wise Speech)

Closing Thoughts

Discrimination in your life

White race, male = privileged?

During the 90s

Society has changed, but not completely

White privilege still present, White race oblivious?

Discrimination in your life

My home city and place of work

60% White 40% Black/other

In my younger years

Discrimination

Racial slurs

Issues in school

Fighting

Distrust

The 90s

Sociological changes

Decedents of the oppressed

Current News on Diversity

The story of the Michael Brown shooting in

Ferguson, MO and the protests and riots that

followed.

A Town Divided

Even after several weeks, protest carry on and

division is a bigger problem now than before.

Hate Crime : any of various crimes (as assault or defacement of property) when motivated by hostility to the victim as a member of a group (as one based on color, creed, gender, or sexual orientation) (Merriam-Webster.com)

Reflections(Sensitivity and awareness)

Diversity ratio

Increasing immigration or the melting pot?

White race as a minority in America?

Increasing population

Reflections(Challenges and benefits)

More accepting of diversity

Old school ways

Diversity a good thing

Reflections(Mass Media in America)

The Michael Brown Case

Media stirring up angst among races

Mixed signals from program to program

A matter of perspective

Reflections(Colorblindness)

Does Common core really equalize education?

Outdated information does not help.

Old school teachings versus new age learning

Reverse discrimination?

There must be equality in learning about the history of America

Reflections(Climate of Acceptance)

Start with our Youth and education

Do not suppress one truth for another

Explore all sides to the story of America

People are just people

RESOURCES I USED

http://www.amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html

http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DP_DPDP1

http://fox2now.com/2014/09/20/protestors-at-farmers-market-call-for-arrest-in-michael-brown-shooting/

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hate%20crime

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/12/us/13police-shooting-of-black-teenager-michael-brown.html?_r=0

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/what-we-mean-when-we-say-race-is-a-social-construct/275872/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/09/18/ferguson-asked-residents-to-comment-after-the-michael-brown-shooting-heres-what-they-had-to-say/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPhOZzsi_6Q

https://soundcloud.com/kelli-rodriguez/tim-wise

Schaefer, R.T. (2012). Racial and Etnic Groups (13th ed.). Retrieved from The University of Phoenix eBook Collection database.