exam 3

Question 1

Stearns et al “Interracial Friendships” –> when students of different races enter college, what do their interracial relationships look like?

Answer 1

White students increased, Black students decreased

Question 2

McPherson et al “Birds of a Feather”

Answer 2

4 types of homophily

Question 3

Baker & O’Connell “Structural Racism, family structure”

Answer 3

states with a higher concentration of Black people in 1860 have larger racial disparities in poverty among households that are married with children. Families are poorer in states that seceded from the union

Question 4

Smith, HTWIP “Whitney Plantation”

Answer 4

site of the largest slave revolt in history; employees were POC and had very honest representation; the central focus was the experience of the people who were enslaved

Question 5

Rudder “Ok Trends” which groups are more likely to respond to messages; compatibility match percentage by race when it’s deciding who to suggest on profiles

Answer 5

By race, they’re roughly the same average for all racial pairings

Question 6

“In Sickness and in Wealth” documentary

Answer 6

takes place in Louisville; people at the top of the power hierarchy have significantly less environmental stress and vice versa

Question 7

Cerdena et al “From Race-Based to Race-Conscious Medicine”

Answer 7

race-based medicine is an assumption of different health problems; rooted in the idea that race is genetic. They propose race-conscious medicine which doesn’t emphasize race but racism. The most important recommendation is teaching medical students that racial health disparities are a consequence of structural racism

Question 8

Cheah et al “Covid-19 Racism”

Answer 8

there needs to be increased attention paid to the mental health needs of Asian Americans who experienced Covid related racism

Question 9

Park “Study of TV may perpetuate bias”

Answer 9

white characters received more positive treatment than Black characters; people’s perception of what was happening in TV shows

Question 10

Deggans “More Evidence TV Doesn’t Reflect Real Life Diversity”: 3 major findings in this study: whether or not groups are over/underrepresented

Answer 10

Latino: under
Native: under
Black: over
Women: under

Question 11

Harwood “The Evolution of Black Representation on Television”

Answer 11

color-blind casting describes casting a diverse group of actors but writing stories where the character’s racial identity and experience largely don’t matter to the story at all

Question 12

“Digital Blackface” podcast

Answer 12

when non-Black people use GIFs of Black people to express an emotion. Usually, the reactions that are chosen are stereotypically Black reactions

Question 13

Sewer “Colin Kaepernick’s True Sin”

Answer 13

the main critique that he got was that he wasn’t a victim of racial oppression. 3 reasons: adopted by White people, stupid rich, not 100% Black

Question 14

homophily

Answer 14

the practice of associating w/ people who are similar to you; strongest among racial lines

Question 15

baseline homophily

Answer 15

the amount of homophily that you would see based on the demographic breakdown of the place you live

Question 16

inbreeding homophily

Answer 16

homophily that isn’t up to chance. Choice, preference

Question 17

Status homophily

Answer 17

you choose your friends based on status identities

Question 18

value homophily

Answer 18

you choose your friends because they have similar values to you

Question 19

propinquity effect

Answer 19

the tendency for people to form friendships or relationships based on shared social status

Question 20

mere exposure effect

Answer 20

the tendency for people to develop a preference for things merely because they’re familiar with them

Question 21

ethnic nationalism

Answer 21

a small but committed subset of communities of color who fight against racial integration

Question 22

Black nationalism

Answer 22

the solution to White supremacy can only be found in the strength of the Black community

Question 23

civic participation

Answer 23

participating in activities related to citizenship or governing; positively related to income; latinos are just as likely as Whites to participate; Blacks are even more likely than Whites

Question 24

Super Joiners

Answer 24

Black people because after you control for income, Black people have the highest participation rates in associational life

Question 25

Moynahan Report

Answer 25

racial inequality is caused by single-Black mother families, not institutional inequality. Shifted the racial discourse from racial discrimination to pathological Black families

Question 26

Antimiscenation Laws

Answer 26

laws that criminalized interracial marriage and sex

Question 27

Mississippi appendectomy

Answer 27

the routine and involuntary removal of a woman of color’s uterus without her knowledge or consent. We learned about this through Fanny Lou Hamer who publicly spoke out against the government

Question 28

Sexual racism

Answer 28

a stated preference for phenotypically White people or people who have features commonly associated with White people

Question 29

Racial fetishism

Answer 29

making someone an object of sexual desire based solely on their racial identity; rooted in stereotypes and often objectification

Question 30

testing

Answer 30

a strategy where POC feel out members of other racial/ethnic groups to evaluate their level of racial tolerance

Question 31

masking

Answer 31

self-preservation that takes on an explicitly racialized character; wearing a mask around whom you aren’t comfortable

Question 32

double consciousness

Answer 32

group-based; there are 2 different worlds POC live in

Question 33

Looking glass self

Answer 33

when your self-perception and self-worth are influenced by the perception of others

Question 34

racial genetic model

Answer 34

the idea that genetics or biological factors cause health disparities; little empirical evidence

Question 35

socio-economic status model

Answer 35

socio-economic disparities cause health disparities

Question 36

psych-social stress model

Answer 36

suggests that stress associated with and that comes as a result of institutional nd interpersonal racism causes health disparities

Question 37

structural constructivist model

Answer 37

there are casual connections between race and health that are difficult to make; we shouldn’t be spending this time trying to explain it because race is a social construct

Question 38

Covid-19 disparities

Answer 38

in texas, there were racial disparities in vaccine distribution/accessibility because there were pre-existing disparities in the health infrastructure

Question 39

minstrel shows

Answer 39

involving White people performing stereotypical Blackness for White audiences

Question 40

minstrelsy

Answer 40

white control over the representation of Blackness and non-Whiteness

Question 41

3 Different aesthetics: white, racist, and non-racist

Answer 41

Whtie: presents an unraced representation of the social world with Whiteness as the default category

Racist: only represents POC in negative ways; white savior; whitewashing history, pretending racial domination doesn’t exist, and by depicting racism as a purely psychological issue

Anti-racist: generally equal representation for all racial groups and it sheds light on the true histories and current realities of racial domination

Question 42

mediated spectacle

Answer 42

in the world of sports, games are televised, players are interviewed, etc. , so messages about players and their race come through in these mediated ways

Question 43

1936 Berlin Olympics

Answer 43

Hitler wanted to use the Olympics to show the superiority of the Aryan race; What happened was that Black and Jewish Americans dominated the games; Jessie Owens set 4 world records; rebuffed the Nazi ideal of White supremacy

Question 44

1968 Mexico City Olympics

Answer 44

in the height of CRE, racial tension was at its peak; some Black athletes made political statements. Tommy Smith and John Carlos put on black gloves and held up the Black power fist during the national anthem because they wanted to protest discrimination against African Americans in the U.S.