Video and Multimedia

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Audio Resources

Audio Link: 8.1: Police and a Racial Divide Part One

Description: There are so many cops who look at the killing of Eric Garner or Mike Brown and say race didn't play a factor. And there are tons of black people who say that's insane. There's 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.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Outline effects of prejudice, racism, and discrimination on minority and dominant groups.

Audio Link 8.2: Police and the Racial Divide Part Two

Description: We hear about one city where relations between police and black residents went terribly, and another city where they seem to be improving remarkably. And one of our producers asks: Why aren't police chiefs talking about race after incidents where unarmed black men are wrongly killed by officers?

Learning Objective: 8.4: Outline effects of prejudice, racism, and discrimination on minority and dominant groups.

Audio Link 8.3: Language

Description: This podcast takes a look at how people may react when others are speaking about racial stereotypes.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe efforts to reduce racial and ethnic inequality at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of analysis.

Video Resources

Video Link 8.1: The Difference Between Racial and Partisan Gerrymandering

Description: Gerrymandering has become a go-to strategy in the world of politics as politicians carve up areas that affect the elected representative options in the area. This video looks at the difference in gerrymandering based on race and those based in political party.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Outline effects of prejudice, racism, and discrimination on minority and dominant groups.

Video Link 8.2: U.S. Police Shootings Reflect Structural Racism Across States, Study Finds

Description: Researchers from Boston University School of Public Health release a study that outlines the ways people of color are more than three times more likely to be killed by police in our country than whites.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Outline effects of prejudice, racism, and discrimination on minority and dominant groups.

Video Link 8.3: The Birth and Growth of Racism against Mexican-Americans

Description: This video is a quick discussion of the growth of racism against Mexican Americans during the 1900s. Mexican-Americans did not fit into the established racial categories of black or white.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Outline effects of prejudice, racism, and discrimination on minority and dominant groups.

Web Resources

Web Link 8.1: Color-Blindness Is Counterproductive

Description: Sociologists take on the notion of color-blindness as an obstacle to repairing race relations.

Learning Objective: 8.2: Describe the difference between prejudice and discrimination.

Web Link 8.2: White Millennials Are Products of a Failed Lesson in Colorblindness

Description: While Millennials are better versed in diversity and colorblindness than previous generations, they’re uninformed on the language of anti-racism.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Provide examples of dominant and minority group contact in the world today.