RCG Final

MPI Staff, Kevin Jernegan- Two challenges on immigration horizon: security concerns from 9/11 and immigration reform (illegal immigration, prevent illegal entry, providing adequate mean for needed immigrants to enter

Bruce Lambert- Farmingville raid evicts many mexican immigrants living in dangerous houses but leaves them with no place to live

Alejandro Portes- If United States wants to keep bringing in cheap workers, it needs to understand aftermath, especially the economically disadvantaged lives of their children who will remain in US

Mireya Navarro-"As the Hispanic population booms, the fluid ways that she and other Latinos view their racial identities is drawing more attention and fueling the national debate over racial classifications -- what they mean, what they should be and whether they should be and whether they are needed at all"

Sonya Tafoya- The fact that changeable factors determine racial identification among Latinos show not that race lines are fading, but racial categories are broadening

Meizhu Lui and others- Latino income stability depends heavily on access to education- migrant workers, day laborers, recently arrived immigrant families pool resources to purchase assets as a group which distorts picture of the economic situation of individuals and prevents many from getting benefits

Judith Ortiz Cofer- The media engendered image of the latina in the US is partially responsible for the denial of opportunities for upward mobility among Latinas in the professions- myth of the latina as a whore, domestic, or criminal

Oscar Casares- Author wanting to be called Mexican, not Mexican-American, not Hispanic even though his parents/grandparents/greatgrandparents were all born in US- Many consider "Mexican" a dirty word now

Mary Brave Bird (Crow Dog) with Richard Erdoes- Indian boarding schools were cruel and structured in every way for white children- After Indian children returned from school, they found out that they were neither wanted by whites or Indians -- this would lead to drinking

US Commission on Human Rights- Indians started with everything and lost most of it (reverse of other minorities)- While policy towards Indians has changed, the legacy of racism still persists

- John Elk was an indian who had left his tribe to go live with the whites but was denied the right to vote in Omaha, NE. The SC decided that he had not been made a citizen using the fourteenth amendment

Sonia Shah- Unlike other ethnic/racial groups, Asian Pacific Americans share no common historical trauma, no language, color, nation- Asians serve as the middle tier between blacks and whites, corporate elites and workers

Noy Thrupkaew- Refugees from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam are drastically different economically than the Chinese and Japanese that arrived in 1960s- These refugees are similar to other ethnic groups with high single parenthood and poverty

Lawrence Downes- "It's distressing to think that the life's work of one of the best-known, hardest-working Asian-American actors is mostly a loose collection of servile supporting roles"

Meizhu Lui and others- Data obscures Asian realities- size of families give picture of greater household incomes but the per capita tells a different story- returns on educational investments not equal to whites

Yuri Kochiyama- Redress and Reparations movement in response to Japanese internment- taught that even though there is a constitution, constitutional rights can be taken away

Frank Wu- Writing Race- many people think American = white, and minority = black, so what about Asian Americans?

Joseph Berger- the caste system from India under pressure in America, especially in terms of intermarriage

- Since Chinese miners lived in small, segregated groups, the practical effect of this decision was to declare 'open season' on Chinese, since crimes against them were likely to be witnessed only by other Chinese

- In 1876, at the height of the anti-Chinese movement, California adopted a new constitution. Its anti-Chinese provisions, largely unenforceable, represent an accurate measure of public feeling

- Internment of Japanese - This case did not challenge government's ability to intern Japanese, but allowed Japanese to be released if their loyalty established

Matthew Rothschild- running back released from team because of muslim faith and coach suspicion of connection to Al-Qaeda

New York Times Editorial- xenophobia breeds violence and this is a particular threat to Hispanic Americans- "lynching" in New York suburb of Marcelo Lucero

Sut Jhally

Angela Davis- imprisonment has become the response of first resort to many social problems that burden those in poverty

Studs Terkel- CP Ellis is the business manager of International Union of Operating Engineers and had once been president of the Durham chapter of KKK

Chinese -- long interaction with them (since 1850)

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basic value governing various qualities of masculinity in hispanic culture

1943 - Los Angeles11 sailors accused Mexican Youths of attacking them but the police could find no suspects so 200 sailors went out and beat every Mexican they saw

various parts of society have functions, or positive effects, that promote solidarity and maintain the stability as a whole

society is continually engaged in conflict as different groups compete for limited resources; disequilibrium and change is the norm

examines the microsocial world of personal interaction patterns in everyday life rather than the macrosocial aspect of social institutions and their harmony or conflict

- immigrants with lower levels of education fill in needs of industries- moving to rural communities and offsetting population losses- large influx of immigrants has prevented US social system from absorbing so many low-skilled workers right away

- internal colonialism: segregation to ghetto no matter how long residence in US- economic exploitation

- relations between Hispanics and Anglos are strained by inaccurate perceptions- keeping of culture by Hispanics (i.e. language) is threatening to non-Hispanics

- reservations were a highly organized and self-sufficient system until contact with Whites- segregation on nonproductive reservations destroyed NA society- solution: reorganize our own social institutions to put NA social system back into balance

- Companies benefit from NA deprivation as they can exploit their resources- Those living near NAs have a vested interest in maintaining status quo

- social distance was established by whites dehumanizing them as savages and subsequently NAs seeing whites as liars and treacherous people

Native Americans -- twice that of blacks; and unlike Black and whites, the crimes aren't committed by people of their own race