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Interracial Couple Faces Prejudice, 'Purity' Complaints - ABC News

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The downside of diversity - The Boston Globe But a massive new study, based on detailed interviews of nearly 30,000 people across America, has concluded just the opposite. Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam -- famous for "Bowling Alone," his 2000 book on declining civic engagement -- has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings.

Here are the take-home essays for midterm 1. They must be turned in through Turnitin.com. Instructions for using Turnitin.com is on the syllabus. You must answer both questions. Your paper is due before noon, Thursday, February 10, 2011. Question 1. Discuss rankism. In your essay, discuss the various forms of rankism, particularly focusing on weightism and heterosexism. Analyze your own attitudes and beliefs about various groups higher and lower in the rank hierarchy. Discuss what steps might be taken to eliminate all forms of rankism. Make sure you reference all articles you were assigned to read in the section on rankism and heterosexism. Make sure you demonstrate knowledge of material presented in class. Your paper should be about two pages long, double-spaced. This question is worth ten points. Question 2. Discuss the meaning of race and ethnicity, particularly focusing on the social construction of race. Make sure you reference most of the readings assigned in the sections on u...

Tucson rampage: UC Berkeley chancellor's e-mail linking Tucson rampage to immigration issues draws fire - latimes.com He continued, postulating on factors that may have motivated Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged gunman in Saturday's shootings, in which six people died, including a 9-year-old girl, and 13 were injured, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.): "I believe that it is not a coincidence that this calamity has occurred in a state which has legislated discrimination against undocumented persons."

The New Jim Crow | The American Prospect In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as justification for discrimination, exclusion, or social contempt. Rather, we use our criminal-justice system to associate criminality with people of color and then engage in the prejudiced practices we supposedly left behind. Today, it is legal to discriminate against ex-offenders in ways it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, depending on the state you're in, the old forms of discrimination -- employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, and exclusion from jury service -- are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights and arguably less respect than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

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 “...