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Study guide: Desmond and Emirbayer: 5. Crime   1.        Before the Civil War, was the sexual assault of a slave girl by a white man recognized as rape?   2.        Historically, how has the police have been used to support white supremacy?   3.        After the fall of slavery, which juridical institutions – that is, an institution having to do with the creation of laws and the meting out of punishment – arose to control and confine nonwhites, and African-Americans in particular?   4.        According to Ida B. Wells’ research on Southern lynchings, why were most black men were killed?   5.        How did the lynch mob uphold white patriarchy?   6.        According the Desmond and Emirbayer, although prisons long had been a feature of Ameri...

Study guide Desmond and Emirbayer: 4. Housing   1.        Compare segregation levels in major cities during the 19th century to what they are today.   2.        What events during the early portion of the twentieth century in the United States are referred to as the “Great Migration”?   3.        What factors contributed to the creation of the ghetto?   4.        According the survey research discussed in your textbook, the majority of surveyed whites felt that the inner-city uprising in the 1960s were caused by what?   5.        Which group has the highest residential segregation rates?   6.        Blacks are _____ as likely to be isolated from other groups as Hispanics and Asians.   7.       ...

I would like you to do a trial run of your research. If you are doing a survey or interviews, make a list of about ten questions that you will ask. Ask one person those questions, it can even be yourself. See how they work. Turn it your list of questions. These do not have to be the questions you eventually will ask. If you are doing a content analysis, analyze one case. If you are doing an experiment, do a test run. If you are doing an ethnographic analysis, do a trial run. Write a list of things that you think you might find. For example, if you are analyzing how racial and ethnic minorities are portrayed in Disney movies, make a list of how you think they might be portrayed: for example, lazy, devious, untrustworthy, honest, good friend, perfect, etc. Turn in the list of things you think you might find. This trial run is worth 9 points, 5 percent of your total research paper grade. Due day of third midterm.

Spring 2014 Due date: The day of the third midterm How to turn in: Turn in a copy to Turnitin.com on the day we take midterm 3. Point value: This activity is worth 20 points. Considerations: We will discuss this topic in class and you are encouraged to talk about this topic with your classmates outside of class. You can even read each other’s papers. However, simply copying and editing another person’s paper is considered plagiarism and you will, at a minimum, get a zero on this assignment. Turnitin.com is very good at catching plagiarizers. Please do not attempt. Resubmission policy: Any paper that receives a score of less than 19 (93%) can be revised and resubmitted. However, the resubmit option can only be used once. And the maximum score possible for a paper that is resubmitted is 19. There is a section on Turnitin.com where you can turn in a resubmission. You will have until the next exam to resubmit. No late resubmissions will be accepted. Assignment: W...

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Study Guide – Economics Desmond and Emirbayer: 4. Economics 1.        What benefits were created from the New Deal legislation? 2.        Which group had to be accommodated with compromises in order to draft New Deal legislation? 3.        What percent of blacks nationwide could not take advantage of the benefits offered by the Social Security Act of 1935? 4.        The U.S. spent more than 95 billion dollars on what program in the three decades following World War Two, making it the single most comprehensive set of social benefits ever issued by the federal government under a unified initiative? 5.        Were the benefits of the G.I. Bill were extended with equal generosity to whites and nonwhites? 6.        Was it only during the last part of World War II that nonwhites were adm...

Study Guide -- Desmond and Emirbayer: 3. Politics 1.        What is sharecropping? Describe it. 2.        What tactics employed to keep blacks from voting after they had won the right to legally participate in elections? 3.        Which institution served as an institutional hub for the Civil Rights Movement? 4.        What were some direct results of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? 5.        The Voting Rights Act of 1965 resulted in what? 6.        George Wallace, when he blocked entrance to two black students at the University of Alabama, taught Republican politicians what lessons? 7.        Give examples of couching a race-specific issue—segregation--in race-neutral language. 8.        According to your textbook authors...