Our Social World: Condensed: Introduction to Sociology
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Learning Objective: 8.4: Outline effects of prejudice, racism, and discrimination on minority and majority groups.
8.2 Race and Voting
Nate Silver has data that answers big questions about race in politics. For instance, in the 2008 presidential race, did Obama’s skin color actually keep him from getting votes in some parts of the country? Stats and myths collide in this fascinating talk that ends with a remarkable insight.
The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, a teacher in a small town in Iowa tried a daring classroom experiment. She decided to treat children with blue eyes as superior to children with brown eyes. FRONTLINE explores what those children learned about discrimination and how it still affects them today.
Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools for black and white children unconstitutional, school segregation is making a comeback. What is behind the growing racial divide in American schools—and what is the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education?
Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe efforts to reduce racial and ethnic inequality at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of analysis.
8.1 Race Relations
arack Obama speaks in Philadelphia, PA at Constitution Center, on matters not just of race and recent remarks but of the fundamental path by which America can work together to pursue a better future.
This clip looks at the issue of higher educational institutions that use race as a factor in the admissions process.
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Learning Objective: 8.4: Outline effects of prejudice, racism, and discrimination on minority and majority groups.
8.1 Police and a Racial Divide
There are so many cops who look at the killing of Eric Garner or Mike Brown and say race did not play a factor. And there are tons of black people who say that is insane. There is a division between people who distrust the police—even fear them—and people who see cops as a force for good. Stories of people living on both sides of that divide, and people trying to bridge it.
This podcast takes a look at how people may react when others are speaking about racial stereotypes.
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Learning Objective: 8.4: Outline effects of prejudice, racism, and discrimination on minority and majority groups.
8.1 Racism Protests
In the weeks since Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback, took a knee during the national anthem—a protest against racial injustice—he has been discussed by President Obama, has been derided by Donald J. Trump and has helped to intensify an already roiling national debate about race, the police, and the definition of patriotism.
This article from Contexts magazine focuses on ways Sociologists can study institutional racism and offers some tips on ways to end this form of racism.
8.4 Racism in the Kindergarten Classroom
This article, published by Pacific Standard Magazine, examines newly published studies that indicate racism starts as early as Kindergarten for some children.
8.5 Black and Blue
This Contexts article looks at racial profiling in a large, U.S. city.
Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe efforts to reduce racial and ethnic inequality at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of analysis.
The Non-Profit Anti-Racism Coalition is an alliance of organizations and individuals committed to ending institutional racism.