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Web Exercise 1
What are people doing about racism? Start with these websites and then find your own websites. Notice the actions people in various places take for anti-racist projects.
- “Face It! You Can’t Change Society without Talking about Racism,” by Alyssa Figueroa, AlterNet, March 8, 2014.
- “Students See Many Slights as Racial ‘Microaggressions,’” by Tanzina Vega, New York Times, March 21, 2014.
Web Exercise 2: 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.
- “‘The Blind Side.”: Sandra Bullock, White Women, and Racism,” by Jessie Daniels, Racism Review, December 26, 2009.
- “An American Mess: How Colorblind Racism Prevents an Enlightened Conversation on Race in Television Media,” by Nathaniel Philipps, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2012.
- “TV Takes a New Approach to Race, Going Beyond ‘Color Blindness’” by Joanne Ostrow, The Denver Post November 13, 2014.
Web Exercise 3
Explain if the following news articles draw on a particular explanation: institutional racism, systemic racism, or structural racism:
- “The Racial Wealth Gap: How African-Americans Have Been Shortchanged Out of the Materials to Build Wealth” by Janelle Jones, Economic Policy Institute, February 13, 2017.
- “Why Education Inequality Persists—and How to Fix It,” by Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post, May 16, 2012.
- “Treating the Disease of Racism,” by Linell Smith, Johns Hopkins Medicine, February 2010.
- “Why Racism in Health Care is Still a Problem Today,” by Nadra Kareem Nittle, ThoughtCo, August 2, 2016.
- “What Exposes African Americans to Police Violence?” by Devon B. Carbado and Patrick Rock in Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review, 2016.
Web Exercise 4
Watch the video “What Is Systemic Racism” and identify parallels to the chapter.