4. Discrimination
• The causes of discrimination in U.S. society are
complex
• Discrimination must have moral, social, and
theological underpinnings
5. Three Main Theories of Discrimination
• Psychological
When people cannot direct their aggression
at the real sources of their rage, they seek a
substitute target.
6. Three Main Theories of Discrimination
• Normative-cultural
Suggests that individuals hold prejudicial
attitudes because of their socialization.
7. Three Main Theories of Discrimination
• Economic
Occurs when a dominant group discriminates
to maintain their economic and political
advantages.
16. American Indians
– Reservations and Poverty
– Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978
• http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/189afv/th
e-redskins--name---catching-racism
19. Redlining and Segregation
Gee, 2002. A
multilevel
analysis of the
relationship
between
institutional and
individual racial
discrimination
and health
status. Am J
Public Health,
92: 615-623
20. Individual example
• MSNBC, 1998:
– “American Beats Out Kwan”
• Seattle Times, 2002:
– “American outshines Kwan,
Slutskaya in skating
surprise.”
22. Racism
• Racism: I hate green people
• Racial prejudice: All green people want to steal my car
• Racial discrimination: I'm not letting a green man work for my company.
He'd steal my car!
46. There’s no such thing as a single-issue
struggle, because we don’t
live single-issue lives.”
Audre Lorde (1934-1992,
Black Lesbian Writer and Activist
• http://www.newblackfilm.com/trailer/
• http://www.ted.com/talks/yoruba_richen_what_the_gay_rights_movement_learned_from_t
he_civil_rights_movement?language=en
47. Group #1:Immigration Debate A
• Immigration to the United States should be
encouraged by federal policies
• Immigration to the United States should be
discouraged by federal policies
48. Group #2: Immigration Debate B
• Immigrants should have the same civil and
employment rights as anyone else in America
• Illegal immigrants should have the same civil
and employment rights as anyone else in
America.
49. Group #3: Affirmative Action Debate A
• Affirmative action is a good means of
correcting historical patterns of injustice.
• Affirmative action is harmful to the
disadvantaged groups it seeks to assist.
50. Group #4: Affirmative Action Debate B
• Affirmative action should be mandatory for all
public and private institutions,
• Affirmative action should be mandatory for
only public institutions.
Editor's Notes
One firm example of institutional discrimination is redlining – the practice of restricting home purchases. This is a 1936 Home Owners Loan Corporation Map of Redlining in Philadelphia. Households and businesses in the red zones could not get mortgages or business loans. The HOLC was an agency formed during the New Deal – stopped lending in 1936 – but the practice of redlining continued into the mid-1990s.
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
Bill Dedman was an investigative reported that researched redling in Atlanta in the 1980s. He received the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting in 1989 for researching and writing the Color of Money articles. His work found that middle and upper class blacks faced discrimination regardless of economic power.
Discrimination Scales measure chronic and routine less overt experiences of unfair treatment (e.g., receiving poorer service than others in restaurants or stores).
The bigger of the woman being searched in from an ABC special experiment to understand the phenomenon of “Shopping while Black”
March 23, 2009 Episode of ABC’s What would you do –
link to video http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7165444
This slide taken from Gilbert Gee’s presentation on Asian American discrimination shows us once again that redling blatantly existed and for multiple groups.
Example of INDIVIDUAL discrimination is --- Unfair treatment. For many Asian Americans discrimination often takes the form of being treated as the perpetual foreigner. In the case of US figure skater and California native, Michelle Kwan – these discriminatory headlines showed that Asian-American have been portrayed in the media as the perpetual foreigner.
In 1998 “American” Tara Lapinksy won the gold and Michelle Kwan won the silver.
In 2002 “American” refers to Sarah Hughes who won the gold and Kwan the “non-American” won the bronze.
