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Rethinking Crime and Immigration » Contexts Notably, we found a significantly lower rate of violence among Mexican-Americans compared to blacks and whites. A major reason is that more than a quarter of those of Mexican descent were born abroad and more than half lived in neighborhoods where the majority of residents were also Mexican. In particular, first-generation immigrants (those born outside the United States) were 45 percent less likely to commit violence than third-generation Americans, adjusting for individual, family, and neighborhood background. Second-generation immigrants were 22 percent less likely to commit violence than the third generation. This pattern held true for non-Hispanic whites and blacks as well. Our study further showed living in a neighborhood of concentrated immigration was directly associated with lower violence (again, after taking into account a host of correlated factors, including poverty and an individual’s immigrant status). Immigration thus appeared “...

“No Place for Hate” Resolution of Respect We, the Academic Senate Council of Cuesta College, pledge from this day forward to do our best to combat prejudice and to stop those who, because of hate or ignorance, would hurt people or violate their civil rights. We will try at all times to be aware of our own biases and seek to gain understanding of those we perceive as being different from ourselves. We will speak out against all forms of prejudice and discrimination. We will reach out to support those who are targets of hate. We will think about specific ways to promote respect for people and create a prejudice-free zone. We firmly believe that one person can make a difference and that no person can be an “innocent” bystander when it comes to opposing hate. We recognize that respecting individual dignity, achieving equality, and promoting intergroup harmony are the responsibilities of all people. By signing this pledge, we commit ourselves to making a positive impact in the community we ...

Students in Angle 'Asian' gaffe told not to record video - My News 4 - KRNV, Reno, NV The high school's Hispanic Student Union advisor Isaac Barron says her comments made everyone in the room very uncomfortable. "I felt my jaw drop," Barron recalled. "I saw Mr. Angle. He was kinda visibly upset when she said that. The more she spoke, the worse it got. She was on a slippery slope, I think." Myra Monts de Oca, a member of the Hispanic Student Union, says both Hispanic and Asian students at the school feel insulted. "I thought that was kinda ridiculous, because it's already in the name. It couldn't be more obvious what we were. I don't know what was going through her mind. Maybe she meant something else but her point wasn't made." Angle's campaign insists Angle was referring to an instance where a reporter mistakenly referred to her as Asian and that she was trying to make a point about judging on appearance and stereotypes. KS...

News Analysis - Angle Video Reopens Topic of Race - NYTimes.com Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, a professor of sociology at Duke, said the ad and Ms. Angle’s comments about it reflected the country’s new “racial terrain.” “I think the new boogeyman is Latino,” Professor Bonilla-Silva said. Still, Ms. Angle “managed to offend two communities at once: Asians and Latinos,” he said. “Her statements come across as patronizing, and hark back to an old racist tradition where we all look the same.”

You might be a racist if ... | SciGuy | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle The huge IAT database contains troubling findings that have been highly publicized. For example, more than three-quarters of white and Asian test takers in the United States display an unconscious tendency to value white people over black people. Roughly half of black test takers show a pro-white bias as well. Many people who complete the IAT exhibit implicit inclinations for young versus old people and unconsciously favor men over women.

All Academic Inc. (Abstract Management, Conference Management and Research Search Engine) Within the workplace, professional etiquette is a major ingredient in decision-making about an individual’s work space, location, integration, acceptance, and occupational mobility. Who we are dictates where we fit and how we are received. These sentiments and behavioral expectations act as directives position, which frame our ways of participating in society. For African American women, these informal and formal proscriptions are vital to their well-being and advancement in the workplace. African American women‘s desire to be promoted to managerial posts is determined by their relative gain in job rewards, but also by their etiquette, measured by the amount of emotional labor they perform. If they desire a promotion, they ponder if they will receive decision-making responsibilities and authority, prestige, resources, status, pecuniary benefits, and opportunities to continue advancing within their...

Russell Sage Foundation Laissez Faire Racism: The Crystallization of a 'Kinder, Gentler' Anti-Black Ideology

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Discrimination in Metropolitan Housing Markets: National Results from Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 of the Housing Discrimination Study (HDS) | HUD USER Discrimination in Metropolitan Housing Markets: National Results from Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 of the Housing Discrimination Study (HDS)

Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment, Devah Pager, Bruce Western, and Bart Bonikowski (October 2009) http://www.asanet.org/images/journals/docs/pdf/asr/Oct09ASRFeature.pdf

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Race in Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia However, some studies, focusing in the difference between self- and alter-classification show that this phenomenon is far more complex than "money whitens". For instance, according to a study conducted by Paula Miranda-Ribeiro and André Junqueira Caetano among women in Recife, while there is significant inconsistency between the "parda" and "preta" categories, most women are consistently classified by themselves and interviewers into "brancas" and non-brancas. 21,97% of women were consistently classified as White, and 55.13% of women were consistently classified as non-White, while 22.89% of women where inconsistently classified. But the inconsistently classified women reveal an important aspect of economic "whitening". "Self-darkening" women, i.e., those who view themselves as "pretas" or "pardas" but are classified as "brancas" by the interviewer...

O. J. Simpson murder case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An NBC poll taken in 2004 reported that, although 77% of 1,186 people sampled thought Simpson was guilty, only 27% of blacks in the sample believed so, compared to 87% of whites.

Who’s Hispanic? - Pew Hispanic Center Q. What about Brazilians, Portuguese, and Filipinos? Are they Hispanic? A. They are in the eyes of the Census if they say they are, even though these countries do not fit the official OMB definition of "Hispanic" because they are not Spanish speaking. For the most part, people who trace their ancestry to these countries do not self-identify as Hispanic when they fill out their Census forms. Only about 4% of immigrants from Brazil do so, as do just 1% of immigrants from Portugal or the Philippines.3 These patterns reflect a growing recognition and acceptance of the official definition of Hispanics. In the 1980 Census, about one in six Brazilian immigrants and one in eight Portuguese and Filipino immigrants identified as Hispanic. Similar shares did so in the 1990 Census, but by 2000, the shares identifying as Hispanic dropped to levels close to those seen today.

Why the U.S. Census Misreads Hispanic and Arab Americans - TIME Many feel the Census also needs to fine-tune its idea of what is and isn't Hispanic. It tends to define Latin America as just the Spanish-speaking countries of the western hemisphere, when the term also encompasses Portuguese-speaking Brazil. It also includes Spaniards in the "Hispanic Origins" box, when in fact a Spaniard is a European, not a Hispanic.

The Hispanic Population (C2KBR/01-3) [PDF 509k] Go to page 3, Table 1. Census 2000 Briefs and Special Reports Series HISPANIC OR LATINO BY TYPE Hispanic or Latino (of any race) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,305,818 100.0 Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,640,711 58.5 Puerto Rican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,406,178 9.6 Cuban. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,241,685 3.5 Other Hispanic or Latino. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,017,244 28.4 Dominican (Dominican Republic) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764,945 2.2 Central American (excludes Mexican) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,686,937 4.8 Costa Rican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,588 0.2 Guatemalan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372,487 1.1 Honduran . . . . . ...

Census 2000 Briefs and Special Reports Series The OMB defines Hispanic or Latino as “a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.” In data collection and presentation, federal agencies are required to use a minimum of two ethnicities: “Hispanic or Latino” and “Not Hispanic or Latino.”

Staten Island Grapples With Attacks Against Mexicans : NPR Police are investigating a string of at least 10 alleged hate crimes in the borough's Port Richmond area since April — all violent, and all perpetrated against Mexicans.

The Enduring Relevance of Affirmative Action | The American Prospect The amorphous and malleable idea of "diversity" provided much needed buoyancy to affirmative action, especially in the 2003 University of Michigan affirmative-action cases when 65 major companies, including American Express, Coca Cola, and Microsoft, asserted that maintaining racial diversity in institutions of higher education is vital to their efforts to hire and maintain a diverse workforce. A group of former high-ranking officers and civilian leaders of the military concurred, declaring that "a highly qualified, racially diverse officer corps ... is essential to the military's ability to fulfill its principal mission to provide national security." Even Theodore Olson, the Bush administration's solicitor general, took pains to defer to "diversity" in a brief on the case.

Principal bans U.S. flag T-shirts on Mexican holiday Principal bans U.S. flag T-shirts on Mexican holiday Students sent home for wearing 'incendiary' stars and stripes on Cinco de Mayo

Powerless in Arizona | The American Prospect Indeed, in the past decade the state has taken an increasingly stringent approach to immigration enforcement. In 2004, Arizona voters approved Proposition 200, which requires proof of citizenship at voting booths and in applying for social services. Legislators passed an "English only" law in 2006 and have also barred non-citizens – and even recent citizens – from receiving financial aid for higher education. Phoenix is also home to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has gained notoriety for random immigration raids on businesses and immigrant-detainee abuses.

15 protesters arrested in ethnic studies sit-in - KGUN 9 On Your Side, Tucson News, Weather & Sports University of Arizona professor and member of the Mexican-American Studies Advisory Board, Roberto Rodriquez, was one of 37 people who stayed behind as the protestors were cleared from the courtyard. He told KGUN 9 the bill is another attack on Chicanos. "SB1070 is the physical, that is somebody doesn't want us here, the other, HB 2281 is about our spirits. They want our spirits, they want our souls."

HB 2281 prohibits a school district or charter school from including courses or classes that either promote the overthrow of the United States government or promote resentment toward a race or class of people. Format Document Provisions · States that the Legislature finds and declares that public school pupils should be taught to treat and value each other as individuals and not be taught to resent or hate other races or classes of people. · Prohibits a school district or charter school from including in its program of instruction any courses or classes that: Ø Promote the overthrow of the United States government. Ø Promote resentment toward a race or class of people. Ø Are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group. Ø Advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.

Citing Individualism, Arizona Tries to Rein in Ethnic Studies in School - NYTimes.com “They are teaching a radical ideology in Raza, including that Arizona and other states were stolen from Mexico and should be given back,” he continued, referring to the Mexican-American studies classes. “My point of view is that these kids’ parents and grandparents came, mostly legally, because this is the land of opportunity, and we should teach them that if they work hard, they can accomplish anything.”

Arizona Law - Ethnic Studies - Anderson Cooper | Mediaite The most exemplary exchange in the debate for the general attitude of both sides comes late in the segment, when Dyson argues that “Martin Luther King [he comes up often in this clip] cannot by used to justify xenophobic and racist passions that are dressed up as desires to reform the curriculum.” Horne replies, “I think the xenophobia and racism is on your side.”

Arizona's immigration crackdown: The backlash begins | The Economist The Latino movement usually grows by spurts in response to xenophobic overreactions by conservative America, and the Arizona law may be the biggest overreaction yet, according to Mr Gonzalez. It has “done more to organise our community than we could have done” and made it “the most vibrant social movement in America today, 100 times larger than the tea-party movement.”

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Testimony of Douglas Massey - Google Search Apr 20, 2007 ... Testimony of Douglas S. Massey before the. Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees,. Border Security, and International Law

ILW.COM - immigration news: Five Myths About Immigration: Common Misconceptions Underlying US Border-Enforcement Policy The current crisis of undocumented immigration to the United States has its roots in fundamental misunderstandings about the causes of immigration and the motivations of immigrants. A growing body of evidence indicates that current border enforcement policies are based on mistaken assumptions and have failed. Undocumented migrants continue to come to the United States, rates of apprehension are at all-time lows, and migrants are settling in the United States at higher rates than ever before. Developing effective and realistic immigration policies requires overcoming five basic myths about immigration:

Data and Resources: Country of Origin Profiles - Pew Hispanic Center Country of Origin Profiles

Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States, 2008 - Pew Hispanic Center Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States, 2008

Hispanics and Arizona’s New Immigration Law - Pew Hispanic Center Hispanics and Arizona’s New Immigration Law

Blacks Upbeat about Black Progress, Prospects - Pew Social & Demographic Trends Blacks Upbeat about Black Progress, Prospects A Year After Obama's Election

Mexican Immigrants: How Many Come? How Many Leave? - Pew Hispanic Center The flow of immigrants from Mexico to the United States has declined sharply since mid-decade, but there is no evidence of an increase during this period in the number of Mexican-born migrants returning home from the U.S., according to a new analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center of government data from both countries.

Mexico's remittances down 12 pct in 1st quarter - BusinessWeek Mexico's central bank says the amount of money sent home by Mexicans working abroad dropped 12 percent in the first quarter of the year compared to 2009. The Bank of Mexico says the country received $4.8 billion in remittances in the first three months of the year, compared to $5.5 billion during the same period in 2009. Mexico's remittances have been falling for more than a year amid an economic crisis making it difficult for migrants to find jobs in the U.S. However, a statement from the bank Wednesday says the pace of the decline is slowing. Remittances are Mexico's No. 2 source of foreign income after oil exports. Almost 12 million Mexicans live in the United States.

Explaining the Increase in Remittances to Mexico - Southwest Economy, July/August 2007 - FRB Dallas Banco de México has good data on where remittances go within Mexico (Table 1). The central–western states attract most of these financial flows, with Michoacán at the top with almost $2.5 billion, 16.1 percent of gross state product (GSP). Guanajuato follows at $2.1 billion (14.8 percent), then Jalisco at $2 billion (2.4 percent) and Estado de México at $1.9 billion (6.3 percent). As a share of GSP, remittances are also significant in Guerrero, Zacatecas, Oaxaca and Nayarit.

Remittances to Mexico down sharply - Los Angeles Times MEXICO CITY — Mexico's reeling economy received another jolt of bad news Monday with reports of the largest monthly decline yet in the amount of money Mexicans working abroad send home. Remittances for the month of April totaled about $1.7 billion, 18.6% less than the $2.1 billion recorded in April 2008, Mexico's central bank said.

Op-Ed Columnist - The Rage Is Not About Health Care - NYTimes.com If Obama’s first legislative priority had been immigration or financial reform or climate change, we would have seen the same trajectory. The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play. It’s not happenstance that Frank, Lewis and Cleaver — none of them major Democratic players in the health care push — received a major share of last weekend’s abuse. When you hear demonstrators chant the slogan “Take our country back!,” these are the people they want to take the country back from.

Ritz-Carlton Hotel Allegedly Granted Guest's Discriminatory Request - ABC News On March 12, 2010, the family came for dinner at the hotel's Grill Restaurant. Tranchant was working there but was prevented by immediate supervisors that night from serving the family dinner, the suit says. Tranchant said in the suit that he "was humiliated, embarrassed, frightened, intimidated, subject to undeserved shame and suffered severe emotional distress." Tranchant says in his suit that he has sought medical and psychological treatment. He declined to comment.

Obama slams Arizona immigration bill - CNN.com Washington (CNN) -- President Obama on Friday criticized a controversial new immigration bill in Arizona, calling it "misguided." "Our failure to act responsible at the federal level will only open the door to irresponsibility by others. That includes, for example, the recent efforts in Arizona, which threaten to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and their communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe," the president said at a naturalization ceremony for 24 members of the military.

Arizona immigration bill ignites outcry from students and Latino advocates While a poll indicates a 70 percent approval rating for Senate Bill 1070, the tough immigration legislation awaiting the governor's veto or signature also has unleashed a groundswell of activism among Arizona's young people and Latino advocates at a level not seen since immigration marches in 2006.

About Us :: racismreview.com RacismReview is intended to provide a credible and reliable source of information for journalists, students and members of the general public who are seeking solid evidence-based research and analysis of “race,” racism, ethnicity, and immigration issues, especially as they undergird and shape U.S. society within a global setting. We also provide substantive research and analysis on local, national, and global resistance to racial and ethnic oppression, including the many types of antiracist activism.

The 'Other' Laughs Back: Humour and Resistance in Anti-racist Comedy -- Weaver 44 (1): 31 -- Sociology This article outlines the ‘reverse discourses’ of black, African-American and Afro-Caribbean comedians in the UK and USA. These reverse discourses appear in comic acts that employ the sign-systems of embodied and cultural racism but develop, or seek to develop, a reverse semantic effect. I argue the humour of reverse discourse is significant in relation to racism because it forms a type of resistance that can, first, act rhetorically against racist meaning and so attack racist truth claims and points of ambivalence. Second, and connected to this, it can rhetorically resolve the ambiguity of the reverse discourse itself. Alongside this, and paradoxically, reverse discourses also contain a polysemic element that can, at times, reproduce racism. The article seeks to develop a means of analysing the relationship between racist and non-racist meaning in such comedic performance.

BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Thinking Allowed, 10/03/2010 Also, from Richard Pryor to Lenny Henry - how humour can reinforce or subvert racial stereotypes. The sociologist Simon Weaver tells Laurie about his research into the nature and variety of anti-racist comedy.

Illegal Immigrants May Face New Curbs in Arizona - NYTimes.com The police would be authorized to arrest immigrants unable to show documents allowing them to be in the country and the legislation would leave drivers open to sanctions in some cases for knowingly transporting an illegal immigrant, even a relative. It expressly forbids cities from adopting “sanctuary” policies that restrict the police and public workers from immigration enforcement, though it was a matter of debate if any cities had such policies.

Confederate history is about race - CNN.com Historically, Confederate versions of the past and Confederate symbols have meant opposition to equal rights for all Americans. In officially recognizing Confederate History Month, Gov. McDonnell is asking Virginians to join together in celebration of this history of white supremacy.

Soc 206 Spring 10 Midterm Four Take-Home Question DUE Monday, April 19, IN CLASS Discuss the experience of women, particularly as their lives are impacted by poverty and ethnic minority status. This question is worth 12 points. The suggested length is two pages double-spaced. As always, extra credit points will be awarded for completeness (thoroughly answering the question), quality of writing, and critical thinking. You may also include personal observations and external sources as well. For full credit, you must reference ALL the following readings AND show knowledge of lecture material: In Race and Ethnicity in the United States, Higginbotham and Andersen: 46. Heidi Barajas and Jennifer Pierce, "The Significance of Race and Gender in School Success among Latinas and Latinos in College." 31. Avis A. Jones DeWeever and Heidi Hartmann, "Abandoned before the Storms: The Glaring Disaster of Gender, Race, and Class Disparities in the Gulf." 40. Kathryn Edin and Maria K...

Lexington: Sex and the single black woman | The Economist As incarceration rates exploded between 1970 and 2007, the proportion of US-born black women aged 30-44 who were married plunged from 62% to 33%. “I thought I was a catch,” sighs an attractive black female doctor at a hospital in Washington, DC. Black men with good jobs know they are “a hot commodity”, she observes. When there are six women chasing one man, “It’s like, what are you going to do extra, to get his attention?” Some women offer sex on the first date, she says, which makes life harder for those who prefer to combine romance with commitment. She complains about a recent boyfriend, an electrician whom she had been dating for about six months, whose phone started ringing late at night. It turned out to be his other girlfriend. Pressed, he said he didn’t realise the relationship was meant to be exclusive.

Our Racial Interior | The American Prospect Other studies have found that test takers under identity threat show physiological signs of anxiety -- increasing heart rate and higher blood pressure -- even when they say they don't feel anxious. Steele refers to this pattern of denial as "trying to slay a ghost in the room." The Herculean effort of trying to disprove a stereotype, Steele argues, "leaves little mental capacity free for anything else we're doing." These cognitive effects, he explains, are as potent a limit on the life chances of minorities as the segregated institutions of his youth in Chicago.

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Neighborhood Racial-Composition Preferences: Evidence form a Multiethnic Metropolis http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/glenn_loury/louryhomepage/teaching/Ec%20137/Ec%20137%20spring07/camille-charles.pdf

THE DYNAMICS OF RACIAL RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION http://www.sociology.osu.edu/classes/soc367/payne/Racial%20Residential%20Segregation.pdf

Community Reinvestment Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Some economists, politicians and other commentators have charged that the CRA contributed in part to the 2008 financial crisis by encouraging banks to make unsafe loans. Economists from the Federal Reserve and the FDIC, dispute this contention. The Federal Reserve, having examined the evidence, holds that empirical research has not validated any relationship between the CRA and the 2008 financial crisis[98]. At the FDIC, Chair Sheila Bair delivered remarks noting that the majority of subprime loans originated from lenders not regulated by the CRA, calling it a "scapegoat" and declaring it "NOT guilty."[99]

The Slow March Toward Immigration Reform | The American Prospect The growing nativism among members of Congress reflects a society-wide trend. Since the 2006 protests, membership in anti-immigrant groups has increased 600 percent. The number of these groups has also risen from around 40 in 2005 to over 250 today. Many of these groups have gained a veneer of credibility by posing as nonpartisan think tanks. The Center for Immigration Studies, which together with NumbersUSA and FAIR forms a sort of racist trifecta, routinely sends out innocuous-looking policy papers that surprisingly find, time after time, that immigrants pose a threat to our economic and social stability. Their members are called to testify before Congress as "experts," but as the Southern Poverty Law Center has extensively documented, behind their wonky image and deceptive use of statistics lies the bigotry of John Tanton, the eugenicist and white supremacist who helped found all three organizations. These lo...

Interracial Dating & Marriage : Asian-Nation :: Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues These results can be considered in combination with the Shinagawa and Pang article, which points out that for all Asian ethnic groups and both husbands and wives, the percentage who are intermarrying with Whites has increased in recent decades, with the one exception of Japanese American wives. However, their study also finds that with the exception of U.S.-raised Korean women, all other Asian ethnic groups and husbands and wives are also more likely to marry another Asian (either within their own ethnic group or some other Asian ethnic group) than to marry a White person.

Most Americans Approve of Interracial Marriages More than three in four Americans say they approve of marriages between blacks and whites -- similar to the results measured in 2003 and 2004. As recently as 1994, less than half of Americans approved. The vast majority of whites and an even larger majority of blacks approve of interracial marriages. Older Americans -- regardless of race or ethnicity -- are less inclined to support interracial marriages than are younger Americans, but still, older Americans show majority support.

Tufts University Social Cognition (TUSC) Lab Individuals with features that are more Afrocentric (dark skin tone, coarse hair, broad noses, and full lips) are perceived more negatively – and stereotypically – than individuals with less Afrocentric features.

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White privilege - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In critical race theory, white privilege is a way of conceptualizing racial inequalities that focuses as much on the advantages that whites accrue as on the disadvantages that people of color experience. Unlike theories of overt racism or prejudice, which suggest that people actively seek to oppress or demean other racial groups, theories of white privilege assert that the experience of whites is viewed by whites as normal rather than advantaged.

White privilege - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The disparity is not simply a matter of color: School District data indicate income, English-language proficiency and home stability are also important correlates to achievement...By promoting the "white privilege" canard and by designing a student indoctrination plan, the Seattle School District is putting retrograde, leftist politics ahead of academics, while the perpetrators of "white privilege" are minimizing the capabilities of minorities.

Supreme Court Firefighter: U.S. Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of New Haven Firefighters - Courant.com The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that 20 white New Haven firefighters who were denied promotion were victims of illegal racial discrimination. But while critical of New Haven for using "raw, racial statistics" to invalidate a promotional examination, the court stopped short of ordering broad changes to race-and-hiring law sought by the firefighters and their supporters. The 5-4 decision, which Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority, leaves intact the portion of the law that New Haven used to invalidate the examination after no black applicants scored high enough to qualify for promotion. But analysts said the decision could raise the standard that employers must meet in the future to reject test results in similar circumstances.

Supreme Court to consider another case on racial bias in hiring - Los Angeles Times Last year, the justices ruled for white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who said they were victims of illegal racial discrimination when the city threw out the results of a promotion test. The whites had earned high scores and would have gotten nearly all the promotions. City officials dropped the test results because they feared being sued by blacks who were denied promotions.

Princeton University Department of Sociology Pager, Devah. 2003. “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” American Journal of Sociology 108(5):937-975.

Race Matters - Devah Pager To isolate the effect of a criminal record on the job search, Ms. Pager sent pairs of young, well-groomed, well-spoken college men with identical r´sum´s to apply for 350 advertised entry-level jobs in Milwaukee. The only difference was that one said he had served an 18-month prison sentence for cocaine possession. Two teams were black, two white. A telephone survey of the same employers followed. For her black testers, the callback rate was 5 percent if they had a criminal record and 14 percent if they did not. For whites, it was 17 percent with a criminal record and 34 percent without.

Conservatives put stamp on Texas textbooks - Education- msnbc.com Another amendment deleted a requirement that sociology students "explain how institutional racism is evident in American society."

Stereotype threat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The phenomenon was later examined by the social psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson, who articulated the mechanism of "stereotype threat" that contributes to test performance of minority groups. In one such study, Steele and Aronson (1995) administered the Graduate Record Examination to European American and African American students. Half of each group was told that their intelligence was being measured, while the other half didn't know what the test was measuring. The European American students performed almost equally in the two conditions of the experiment. African Americans, in contrast, performed far worse than they otherwise would have when they were told their intelligence was being measured. The researchers concluded this was because stereotype threat made the students anxious about confirming the stereotype regarding African American IQ. The researchers found that the difference was even more notice...

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UC SPiRL Our research has provided robust evidence of racial bias in decisions to shoot (Correll, Park, Judd & Wittenbrink, 2002; Correll, Park, Judd, Wittenbrink, Sadler & Keesee, in press; Correll, Urland & Ito, 2006). Participants shoot an armed target more quickly and more often when that target is Black, rather than White. However, participants decide not to shoot an unarmed target more quickly and more often when the target is White, rather than Black. In essence, participants seem to process stereotype-consistent targets (armed Blacks and unarmed Whites) more easily than counterstereotypic targets (unarmed Blacks and armed Whites).

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Optional Implicit Association Test Survey If you complete this activity, you will receive one extra credit point. This activity will take you about one hour. You will take two Implicit Association Tests. After you take one test, you will answer some questions. You will then take and another test, then answer some more questions. One concerns race and the other weight. Surveys must be completed by March 20, 2010. If you were born on an even day of the month, click below and follow the instructions, Even: http://www.websurvey.site90.net/limesurvey/index.php?sid=78566&lang=en If you were born on an odd day of the month, click below and follow the instructions, Odd: http://www.websurvey.site90.net/limesurvey/index.php?sid=96255&lang=en

Same-sex marriage becomes legal in D.C.; line forms - USATODAY.com Washington will be the sixth place in the nation where gay marriages can take place. Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont currently issue licenses to same-sex couples.

Multiracial no longer boxed in by the Census - USATODAY.com • About three of 10 marriages involving Hispanics or Asians are now mixed-race, and almost one of six involving blacks are mixed race, according to an analysis by demographer Frey. • About 9% of marriages involving non-Hispanic whites are mixed.

Racial Profiling Data Collection Resource Center at Northeastern University The following are traffic and pedestrian stop data collection reports that have been released by different jurisdictions and community groups.

Racial Profiling Data Collection Resource Center at Northeastern University The Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University utilizes strategic social science research methodologies to assist government agencies, educational institutions, and members of the community in the development of policy changes that advanced the cause of social justice.

Soc 206 Spring 10 Midterm Two Take-Home Question DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 5, IN CLASS Characterize racial and ethnic inequality in the United States. Suggest possible explanations. This question is worth 20 points. The suggested length is two pages double-spaced. As always, extra credit points will be awarded for completeness (thoroughly answering the question), quality of writing, and critical thinking. You may also include personal observations and external sources as well. For full credit, you must reference ALL the following readings AND show knowledge of lecture material: In Race and Ethnic Relations, Marger: Chapter 2, Ethnic Stratification In Race and Ethnicity in the United States, Higginbotham and Andersen: 5. American Sociological Association, "The Importance of Collecting Data and Doing Social Scientific Research on Race." 30. Alan Jenkins, "Inequality, Race, and Remedy." 29. Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro, "Wealth Inequality Trends " 20. Evelyn Naka...

Working for Cents on the Dollar: Race and Ethnic Wage Gaps in the Noncollege Labor Market Working for Cents on the Dollar Race and Ethnic Wage Gaps in the Noncollege Labor Market Gregory Acs, Pamela J. Loprest

EBSCOhost Connection: The Silent Voices: 2000 Presidential Election and the Minority Vote in Florida. The Silent Voices: 2000 Presidential Election and the Minority Vote in Florida.

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SSRN Author Page for Jerry Kang Are Ideal Litigators White? Measuring the Myth of Colorblindness Abstract: This study examined whether explicit and implicit biases in favor of Whites and against Asian Americans would alter mock jurors' evaluation of a litigator's deposition. We found evidence of both explicit bias as measured by self-reports, and implicit bias as measured by two Implicit Association Tests. In particular, explicit stereotypes that the ideal litigator was White predicted worse evaluation of the Asian American litigator (outgroup derogation); by contrast, implicit stereotypes predicted preferential evaluation of the White litigator (ingroup favoritism). In sum, participants were not colorblind, at least implicitly, towards even a "model minority," and these biases produced racial discrimination. This study provides further evidence of the predictive and ecological validity of the Implicit Association Test.

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CNN.com - Reaction to Katrina split on racial lines - Sep 13, 2005 The poll found that six in 10 blacks interviewed said the federal government was slow in rescuing those stranded in New Orleans after Katrina because many of the people in the Louisiana city were black. But only about one in eight white respondents shared that view.

Katrina and Race - DePauw University Most African-Americans are inclined to agree. A Washington Post/ ABC News poll found that 60 percent of blacks believe race was a factor in the federal government's slow response (compared to 12 percent among whites).

US Census Press Releases Educational Attainment in the United States: 2008 is a series of tables containing data by characteristics such as age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, occupation, industry, nativity, citizenship status and period of entry. The tabulations also include historical data on mean earnings by educational attainment, sex, race and Hispanic origin.

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The Urban Institute | Race, Ethnicity, Gender Job Differences by Race and Ethnicity in the Low-Skill Job Market: Brief No. 4 (Policy Briefs/Employers in the Low-Skill Labor Market) Gregory Acs , Pamela J. Loprest This brief uses data from the 2007 Survey of Employers in the Low-Skill Labor Market to examine differences in the noncollege jobs held by workers of different races and ethnicities and the impact of these differences on wage rates.

State of the Dream 2010: Drained | United for a Fair Economy State of the Dream 2010: Drained explores the current racial economic divide in the U.S. in terms of unemployment, income, poverty, net worth, and rate of foreclosures.

Palins, Emanuel, Limbaugh Remarks and the ADA position Just as we’d be appalled if any public figure of Rahm’s stature ever used the “N-word” or other such inappropriate language, Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking.

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A Brief Timeline of U.S. Policy on Immigration and Naturalization Hart-Celler Act abolished national origins quotas, establishing separate ceilings for the eastern (170,000) and western (120,000) hemispheres (combined in 1978). Categories of preference based on family ties, critical skills, artistic excellence, and refugee status.

The 1965 Immigration Act : Asian-Nation :: Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues Each country in the eastern hemisphere was given a quota of 20,000 but children under 21, spouses, and parents of U.S. citizens were exempt from this quota. Also, countries in the western hemisphere would not be subject to any quotas. Seventy-four percent of the eastern hemisphere's quota was allotted to the four family reunification preferences, 20% of the quota was given to meeting the two occupational preferences, and six percent was allotted to political refugees. Immigrants admitted using the second preference could also petition to bring over their parents (who would not be subject to numerical quotas).

Discussion questions: Solving the problem of illegal immigration: open boarders totalitarian police state trade and investment policies that strengthen the economies of sending nations raising the numerical ceiling on legal immigration reestablishing a statute of limitations on deportation enforcing wage and hour standards (to reduce exploitation) facilitating collective bargaining for workers in agriculture and low-wage industries (to reduce exploitation) amnesty (regularization) guest-worker programs extending NAFTA to people

Soc 206 Spring 10 Midterm One Take-Home Question Due Wednesday, 2/10/10 in class. Discuss the socially constructed nature of race. This question is worth 12 points. The suggested length two pages double-spaced. As always, extra credit points will be awarded for completeness (thoroughly answering the question), quality of writing, and critical thinking. You may also include personal observations and external sources as well. For full credit, you must reference lecture material and all the following readings: In Race and Ethnic Relations , Marger: Chapter 1, Introduction In Race and Ethnicity in the United States , Higginbotham and Andersen: 2. Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol, "Building Bridges." 4. Mustafa Boyoumi, "How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?" 6. Howard F. Taylor, "Defining Race." 7. Ann Morning, "Race." 8. Abby Ferber, "Planting the Seed: The Invention of Race." 10. Michael Omi and Howard Wi...

Daily Kos :: State of the Nation QUESTION: Would you favor or oppose giving illegal immigrants now living in the United States the right to live here legally if they pay a fine and learn English?

U.S. Foreign-Born Population This report uses the American Community Survey data to describe the race and Hispanic origin composition of the foreign-born population in the United States in 2007.

Coloured - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thus, in KwaZulu-Natal, most coloureds come from British and Zulu heritage, while Zimbabwean coloureds come from Shona or Ndebele mixing with British and Afrikaner settlers. Griqua, on the other hand, are descendants of Khoisan and Afrikaner trekboers.

Middle East Report 224: Arabs, Race and the Post-September 11 National Security State, by Salah D. Hassan The Justice Department announced on August 12 its intention to implement the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) on September 11, 2002. The system involves the fingerprinting of "high-risk" foreign visitors. In addition, the program will require targeted foreign nationals to register their residence with authorities and to confirm their exit. According to a Justice Department statement, foreigners "will be selected according to intelligence criteria reflecting patterns of terrorist organizations' activities." But the system will begin by tracking "all nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Syria," though no nationals from these countries were involved in the September 11 hijackings.

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UCOP Student Affairs: Publications Undergraduate Access to the University of California After the Elimination of Race-Conscious Policies see table on page 19

Prop 209: Ten Long Years Students and community activists agree that the ideal of "color blindness" that has come to dominate the way race is discussed (or not) in this country has presented the most difficult challenge to raising awareness about Prop 209's regressive effects on diversity. Eva Paterson, president of the Equal Justice Society and an African-American Berkeley Law School alum, believes there's a dire need to get the issue of race back on the table. "Color blindness is an absurd concept," she says. "The only way I can live in a color-blind society is if I have a bag over my head."

Passing (racial identity) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Another example of passing: During World War Two in Nazi Germany and the rest of Europe, Jewish people who looked "Aryan" (had lighter hair and blue eyes) would try to pass for Aryan to avoid being shipped off to concentration and death camps by the Nazis. An extreme example is the story of Edith Hahn Beer; she was a Jewish woman who was able to “pass" as Aryan, and survived the Holocaust by living with and marrying a Nazi officer. Mrs. Hahn-Beer wrote a memoir called: The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust. [4]

South Africa: Honorary Whites - TIME It all recalled Hermann Göring's retort in 1934 when told that a favorite Munich art dealer was a non-Aryan: "I shall decide who is a Jew around here."

Honorary whites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Honorary Whites is a term that was used by the apartheid regime of South Africa as a designation for the Japanese people, which granted them almost all of the same rights and privileges as Whites (except for the right to vote, as well as being exempt from conscription), after a trade pact was formed between South Africa and Japan in the early 1960's, when Tokyo's Yawata Iron & Steel Co. offered to purchase 5,000,000 tons of South African pig iron, worth more than $250,000,000, over a ten-year period.[1] With such a huge deal in the works, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd determined that it would be tactless to subject the Japanese people to the same restrictions as other non-White ethnicities, since trade delegations from Japan would now regularly visit South Africa for business. Thenceforth, Pretoria's Group Areas Board publicly announced that all Japanese people would be considered White, at least for purposes of resid...

One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life — a Story of Race and Family Secrets - Bliss Broyard - Books - Review - New York Times But for Broyard to construct a white identity required the ruthless and cowardly jettisoning of his black family. He would later lamely tell his children that their grandmother and their two aunts, one of them with tell-tale dark skin, simply didn’t interest him. During the 1960s, he expressed no sympathy for the civil rights movement, opposed, his daughter writes, to a movement that required “adherence to a group platform rather than to one’s ‘essential spirit.’ ”

Passing (racial identity) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 20th-century writer and critic Anatole Broyard was a Louisiana Creole who chose to pass for white in his adult life in New York City and Connecticut, in part because he wanted to create an independent writing life. He married an American woman of European descent. His wife and many of his friends knew he was partly black. His daughter Bliss Broyard did not find out until after her father's death. In 2007 she published a memoir that traced her exploration of her father's life and family mysteries entitled One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life - A Story of Race and Family Secrets.

Which 1/2 white 1/2 black famous people can pass for white? - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers Best Answer - Chosen by Asker Nicole Richie http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawl… Jennifer Beals http://justlikejessejames.files.wordpres… Vin Diesel http://images.askmen.com/galleries/men/v… Mariah Carey http://images.askmen.com/galleries/celeb…

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Center for Immigration Studies There do not seem to be any factors that can explain the precipitous drop in immigrant welfare participation in California. The California experience may indeed reflect a chilling effect but the chilling effect has nothing to do with welfare reform, and may have much to do with the enactment of Proposition 187.

Michelle Malkin » RICE IS WRONG “I’ve heard the national anthem done in rap versions, country versions, classical versions. The individualization of the American national anthem is quite under way,” she said on the CBS show “Face the Nation.”

WestEd: Effects of the Implementation of Proposition 227 on the Education of English Learners, K-12 Interviews with representatives of schools and districts among the highest performers in the state with substantial English learner populations further supported the finding that there is no single path to academic excellence among English learners.