This document discusses race, ethnicity, discrimination, and hate crimes. It defines key terms like race, ethnicity, and discrimination, and discusses perspectives on how they matter. Examples are provided of races in the US and Pakistan, ethnicities in both countries, and types of discrimination. The document also addresses discrimination and hate crimes against Muslim communities in the US after 9/11, the connection between Islamophobia and discrimination, and differences between verbal and physical discrimination.

1. Race and Ethnic Relations

2. What is race?
• Definition
• Activity
• Salient features
• Examples
• Races in the U.S
• Races in Pakistan
• How race maters?
• Functionalist/conflict and interactionist perspective on race

3. What is ethnicity?
• Definition
• Activity
• Salient features
• Examples
• Ethnicities in the U.S
• ethnicity in Pakistan
• How it maters?
• Functionalist/conflict and interactionist perspective on ethnicity

4. What is Discrimination
• Definition
• Activity
• Forms
• How is it in the U.S? Basis/causes/effects at various levels?
• How is it Pakistan? Basis/causes/effects at various levels?
• Various school of thoughts perspectives
• Examples in the U.S society
• Examples in the Pakistani society

5. Discrimination
• Philosophy of discrimination
• Escalted form = violent hate crimes
• Similarities in the mindset of perpetrators across the world

6. Hate crimes
• Definition
• Forms
• Hate crimes against Muslim diaspora communities in the U.S post
9/11

7. Discrimination and hate crimes
• Connection between islamophobia and discrimination
• 9/11 as a background to discrimination against American Muslims

8. Verbal v/s Physical discrimination
• Description
• Some examples
• Some suggested books and movies

9. Remember! Reading the relevant chapter to
explore more detail is a must for all students.
Class discussion on
discrimination based on
Islamophobia.