Study Guide – Desmond and Emirbayer, Chapter 1 -- DRAFT
1. Is race actively created and recreated?
2. With respect to ethnic classification, is ancestry more important that phenotype?
3. Have racial categories used in the US and Brazil census has changed?
4. Define race, ethnicity, and nationality
5. What kinds of individuals can more easily slip and slide through multiple ethnic identities?
6. Until the late nineteenth century, was immigration to America deregulated and encouraged (with the exception of Chinese exclusion laws)?
7. According to Mae Ngai, did Euro American ethnic and racial identities became uncoupled during the 1920s; and did Asians’ and Mexicans’ ethnic and racial identities remain conjoined in the 1920s?
8. Did Congress, in 1790, restrict naturalization to “white persons”?
9. Have Indian Americans (Asian Indians) always been defined by law as not white?
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11. In 2000, which country had higher naturalization rates, the United States or Canada?
12. Define the following fallacies:
a. individualistic fallacy
b. legalistic fallacy
c. tokenistic fallacy
d. ahistorical fallacy
e. fixed fallacy
13. What types of power does racial domination include?
14. Define institutional racism and interpersonal racism
15. According to Desmond and Emirbayer, is there no such thing as “black institutional racism” or “reverse institutional racism”?
16. According to Desmond and Emirbayer, for people of color, is there a cumulative character to an individual’s racial experiences?
17. According to Desmond and Emirbayer, can people of color be racist? And is it just as powerful as racism by whites?
18. What is symbolic violence?
19. How can symbolic violence be eliminated?
20. What is intersectionality?
21. Does the idea of intersectionality imply that one kind of oppression is more important that another? or that being advantaged in one dimension of life cancels out other dimensions that often result in disadvantage?
22. What is the sociological imagination?
23. According to Desmond and Emirbayer, must we be careful to use the right racial label?
24. What does Desmond and Emirbayer mean when they write that whiteness is racial domination normalized?
25. What is white privilege?
26. In the federal prison system, whites enjoy sentences that are, on average, what percent shorter than those given to African Americans guilty of the exact same crime?
27. Desmond and Emirbayer propose that the opposite of color-blindness should be what?