Web Exercise One: Individual Impacts from Overt Racism Against their Group
Research the impacts on individuals affected by the examples of overt racism described in Chapter Three, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Japanese Internment, and the Mexican Deportations in the 1930s. Find out about one person for each.
Web Exercise Two: Websites That Analyze Racial Ideologies in Popular Culture
Question: How is color-blind racism incorporated in these different popular culture artifacts—a movie, song lyrics, and two television shows? What kinds of conversations are shut down by color-blind media? How has television media changed or not changed according to the claims in the 2014 piece, “TV Takes a New Approach”? How are culture and race intertwined in the analysis of the 2014 piece?
- “The Accidentally Color-Blind Racist,” by Gwen Sharp, The Society Pages, April 17, 2013. http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/04/17/the-accidentally-color-blind-racist/
- “‘The Blind Side.”: Sandra Bullock, White Women, and Racism,” by Jessie Daniels, Racism Review, December 26, 2009. http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2009/12/26/the-blind-side/
- “An American Mess: How Colorblind Racism Prevents an Enlightened Conversation on Race in Television Media,” by Nathaniel Phillipps, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2012. http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=mcnair_posters
- “TV Takes a New Approach to Race, Going Beyond ‘Color Blindness’” by Joanne Ostrow, The Denver Post November 13, 2014. http://www.denverpost.com/2014/11/13/tv-takes-a-new-approach-to-race-going-beyond-color-blindness/
Web Exercise Three: Quiz
“How Well Do You Know America’s History of Racism? A Quiz” by Tyler Kingkade from Black Voice in Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/racism-quiz_us_56d0b7ece4b03260bf76cff6