Chapter 10 - Racial Inequality

Question 1

Minority Majority Country

Answer 1

U.S. will be minority majority country by 2050

Question 2

Indigenous Stats During Colonization

Answer 2

70-90% of Indigenous populations on Turtle Island were wiped out, made it impossible to defend against imperialists. Took land and then committed genocide.

Question 3

Slavery and Disease

Answer 3

Slavery didn’t take root in the north. The south wouldn’t have either apparently but the indentured slaves couldn’t survive in the south because of disease.
One third of slaves died on the way to North America

Question 4

Race and Pseudoscience

Answer 4

As Europeans got into positivism and rationalism they used science to justify preexisting constructed racial hierarchies (social Darwinism, phrenology)

Question 5

Black Experience Post-Slavery

Answer 5

Very bad. Were systemically prevented from being educated, or getting capital.

Question 6

Civil Rights Movement

Answer 6

Got rid of overtly racist laws but the implicit ones still exist.

Question 7

The Southern Strategy

Answer 7

Nixon flipped the South from being Democrat since the civil war by appealing to dog-whistle issues mostly to do with crime - which is now very common.

Question 8

Voting Rights and Criminal Behaviour

Answer 8

In most states if you’re a felon or on probation, you can’t vote.

Question 9

War on Drugs

Answer 9

Part of Nixon’s Southern Strategy that focused on dog whistle issues mostly crime. This led to mass incarceration which disproportionately affects black men. Harder to get jobs, credit, be with your family.
Many were in gangs for protection in jails, then those were the best safeguard they had outside.

Question 10

Voter Suppression

Answer 10

Purposefully precludes black people from voting. 80-90% of black population votes democrat.

Question 11

The Beer Summit

Answer 11

Henry Louis Gates, James Crowley, and Barack Obama met because the first got arrested for trying to enter his own home. Obama blamed the office which caused push-back and so he invited them to the white house to talk it over over beer.

Question 12

Four Concerns about Immigration

Answer 12

Stealing jobs
Line jumpers 
Strain on welfare system
Failure to assimilate 
(If they wanted to end immigration they would go after businesses)

Question 13

Two Concerns with Block Voting

Answer 13

1. The block voters really only have one choice and often don’t like the candidate
2. The party who they vote for takes them for granted and doesn’t care about their issues.