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?

 

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

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