Raymond D'Angelo, Herbert Douglas

Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Race and Ethnicity

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• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Altersempfehlung: 18 bis 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 216mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781259677670
• ISBN-10: 1259677672
• Artikelnr.: 45331592

Inhaltsangabe

UNIT 1: American Identity and Immigration
Issue: Do We Need a Common Identity?
Yes: Patrick J. Buchanan, from "Nation or Notion?" State of Emergency
(2006) No: Michael Walzer, from "What Does It Mean to Be an 'American'?"
Social Research (1990)
Patrick J. Buchanan, a syndicated conservative columnist and author of The
Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil
Our Country and Civilizations (St. Martin's Griffin, 2002), argues that
America needs one common identity. He views attempts to change America's
historic identity as fraudulent. Michael Walzer, professor at the Institute
for Advanced Study, makes the pluralist argument that America cannot avoid
its multicultural identity. He explores the ways in which citizenship and
nationality are compatible with the preservation of one's ethnic identity,
culture, and community.
Issue: Are Multiculturalism and Assimilation Inevitable Components of the
Emerging American Identity?
Yes: Stephen Steinberg, from "The Melting Pot and the Color Line,"
Reinventing the Melting Pot (2004) No: Lawrence Auster, from "How the
Multicultural Ideology Captured America," The Social Contract (2004)
Stephen Steinberg is a Distinguished Professor of Urban Studies at Queens
College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He
extends and expands the idea of assimilation emerging from the Chicago
sociologist Robert Park and argues that inevitable, sometime in the future,
assimilation will occur in American society. Lawrence Auster is a
conservative writer and blogger. He has written extensively on issues
pertaining to national identity and ethnic diversity, including The Path to
National Suicide: An Essay on Immigration and Multiculturalism (American
Immigration Control Foundation, 1990). He sees that multiculturalism and
diversity have gained popularity as an ideology based on a set of false
propositions. For Auster, diversity and multiculturalism are real attacks
on European culture.
Issue: Does Immigration Contribute to a Better America?
Yes: Philippe Legrain, from "The Case for Immigration: The Secret to
Economic Vibrancy," The International Economy (2007) No: Peter Brimelow,
from "Immigration: Dissolving the People," Random House (1995)
Philippe Legrain is a journalist, economist, and author of Immigrants: Your
Country Needs Them and Open World: The Truth about Globalisation. He makes
the case that immigration contributes to a better America as well as a
better world. His economic argument primarily emphasizes that the flow of
immigrants within the global system brings both talent and labor to areas
of need. Peter Brimelow, senior editor at Forbes and National Review
magazines, argues that the United States is being overrun by a growing tide
of aliens who are changing the character and composition of the nation in
manners that are threatening and destructive to its well-being and
prospects for future advancement.
Issue: Do Recent Immigration Trends Challenge Existing Ideas of America's
White Identity?
Yes: Charles A. Gallagher, from "Racial Redistricting: Expanding the
Boundaries of Whiteness," State University of New York Press (2004) No:
Ellis Cose, from "What's White, Anyway?" Newsweek (2000)
Charles A. Gallagher, author and sociology professor at Georgia State
University, argues that America is currently undergoing a "racial
redistricting" in which the boundaries of whiteness are expanding to
include lighter-skinned people of color (i.e., Asians and some Latinos).
Ellis Cose, an African American journalist, argues that the traditional
boundaries that determine race and skin color are not what they once were.
Although he does not specifically cite ethnicity, Cose furthers the claim
that American identity today is an expanding category. The boundaries of
whiteness have expanded and are no longer hard and fast.
UNIT 2: Rethinking the Color Line
Issue: Is the Obama Presidency Moving America Toward a Post-Racial Society?
Yes: Alvin Poussaint, from "Obama, Cosby, King, and the Mountaintop,"
CNN.com (2008) No: Melissa V. Harris-Perry, from "Black by Choice," The
Nation (2010)
Alvin Poussaint is a professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School
with a focus on child psychiatry. He argues that the election of Barack
Obama may indicate that America is approaching the mountaintop that King
preached about. Melissa V. Harris-Perry is a professor of politics at
Tulane University. She is the author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET:
Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought (Princeton University Press,
2004). Harris-Lacewell uses President Barack Obama's selection of black as
his race in filling out the census to argue that we are not ready for a
post-racial society.
Issue: Is the Claim of White Skin Privilege a Myth?
Yes: Paul Kivel, from "White Benefits, Middle-Class Privilege," New Society
Publishers (1995) No: Tim Wise, from "The Absurdity (and Consistency) of
White Denial: What Kind of Card Is Race?" CounterPunch (2006)
Paul Kivel, a teacher, writer, and antiviolence/antiracist activist,
asserts that many benefits accrue to whites solely on the basis of skin
color. These benefits range from economic to political advantages and so
often include better residential choice, police protection, and education
opportunities. Tim Wise, an author of two books on race, argues that whites
do not acknowledge privilege. Instead, whites are often convinced that the
race card is "played" by blacks to gain their own privilege, something that
whites cannot do. Hence, whites simply do not see discrimination and do not
attach privilege to their skin color.
Issue: Is the Emphasis on a Color-Blind Society an Answer to Racism?
Yes: Ward Connerly, from "Don't Box Me In," National Review (2001) No:
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, from Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and
the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, Rowman &
Littlefield (2003)
Ward Connerly is a strong critic of all attempts at racial classification
and believes that in order to achieve a racially egalitarian, unified
American society, the government and private citizens must stop assigning
people to categories delineated by race. To achieve this goal, Mr. Connerly
is supporting the enactment of a "Racial Privacy Initiative." Eduardo
Bonilla-Silva argues that "regardless of whites' sincere fictions, racial
considerations shade almost everything in America" and, therefore,
color-blind ideology is a cover for the racism and inequality that persist
within contemporary American society.
Issue: Is Racial Profiling Defensible Public Policy?
Yes: Scott Johnson, from "Better Unsafe Than (Occasionally) Sorry?" The
American Enterprise (2003) No: Wade J. Henderson and Karen McGill Lawson,
from "Restoring a National Consensus: The Need to End Racial Profiling in
America," The Leadership Conference (2011)
Scott Johnson, conservative journalist and an attorney and fellow at the
Clermont Institute, argues in favor of racial profiling. He claims that
racial profiling does not exist "on the nation's highways and streets." In
the report, "Restoring a National Consensus," Wade Henderson and Karen
McGill Lawson argue that racial profiling is an unjust and ineffective
method of law enforcement that makes us less, not more, safe and secure.
However, profiling is pervasive and used by law enforcement at the federal,
state, and local levels.
UNIT 3: Race Still Matters
Issue 9. Is Racism a Permanent Feature of American Society?
Yes: Linda Greenhouse, from "The End of Racism and other Fables," The New
York Times (2000) No: Russell Nieli, from "Postracialism': Do We Want It?"
Princeton Alumni Weekly (2010)
Linda Greenhouse writes on the Supreme Court for the New York Times. A
Pulitzer Prize winner in 1998, she also teaches at Yale Law School.
Greenhouse is author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction
and Becoming Justice Blackmun. In her review of Derrick Bell's Faces at the
Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism, Greenhouse points out that
Bell believes that the prospects for achieving racial equality in the
United States are "illusory" for blacks. Russell Nieli, a lecturer in
politics at Princeton, works for the Executive Precept Program sponsored by
Princeton's James Madison Program. He has written on affirmative action and
the origins of an urban black underclass. Niele argues that American
society is moving toward a meritocracy, which is post-racist (not
post-racial). For him, race, ethnicity, and religious identity are less
determinant than they were in earlier American history.
Issue: Is Criticism of President Obama Motivated by Racism?
Yes: Paul Rosenberg, from "It Is All Still About Race: Obama Hatred, the
South and the Truth About GOB Wins," Salon (2014) No: Peter Beinart, from
"Reminder: Not All Republican Opposition to Obama Is Racist," The Atlantic
(2014)
Paul Rosenberg is a writer for the website Salon, which focuses on politics
and social issues from a liberal perspective. He believes that negative
thinking and stereotypes of blacks within America are both historical and
embedded, especially within the American South. It is within this racial
context that he views the opposition to President Obama emanating from
Republicans, especially those of the white South. To Rosenberg, racism is
the driving force behind the rigid opposition that Obama has faced
throughout his presidency. Peter Beinart, former editor of The New Republic
, is a journalist and political commentator. He does not deny that race and
racism impact American politics. However, Beinart argues that liberals need
to acknowledge that Obama is not the first president to be attacked and
disrespected. Thus, according to Beinart, vigorous opposition to a
president and his or her policies might be but is not necessarily motivated
by racism.
Issue: Are Native American Mascots Racist Symbols?
Yes: Sonia K. Katyal, from "The Fight over the Redskins Trademark and Other
Racialized Symbols," Findlaw.com (2009) No: Arthur J. Remillard, from "Holy
War on the Football Field: Religion and the Florida State University Indian
Mascot Controversy," Horsehide, Pigskin, Oval Tracks And Apple Pie: Essays
on Sport And American Culture (2005)
Sonia K. Katyal, professor of law and author of Property Outlaws, discusses
the use of Native American mascots in professional sports, with an emphasis
on the Washington Redskins and the negative impact of the use of such
symbols on Native American peoples and culture. Arthur Remillard, professor
of religious studies, recognizes the concern that the use of Native
American mascots within non-Native institutions generates. However, he
argues that the use of such symbols can be viewed as contributing to
respect for Native American culture and its inherent strengths among the
American population.
UNIT 4: The Supreme Court
Issue: Is Affirmative Action an Effective Way to Reverse Racial Inequality?
Yes: Chauncey DeVega, from "White America's Toxic Ignorance: Abigail
Fisher, Antonin Scalia and the Real Privilege That Goes Unspoken," Salon
(2015) No: Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr., from "The Painful Truth
About Affirmative Action," The Atlantic (2012)
Chauncey DeVega, a political essayist and cultural critic, presents a
significant review of the history of racial discrimination and exclusion
that African Americans have experienced throughout the history of the
nation. Given this history and the prevalence of white skin privilege
throughout history, DeVega views affirmative action as a modest attempt to
foster equal opportunity. According to DeVega, opposition to affirmative
action is often informed by ignorance and racism. Richard Sander, a UCLA
law professor and economist, and Stuart Taylor Jr., contributing editor for
National Journal and a contributing editor at Newsweek, are concerned that
affirmative action in college admissions has evolved into a program of
racial preferences that do harm to both minority students and the colleges
which they attend. Sander and Taylor are also concerned that colleges are
not responding to the need to reform such programs.
Issue: Is Stand Your Ground Legislation Race Neutral?
Yes: Patrik Jonsson, from "Racial Bias and 'Stand Your Ground' Laws: What
the Data Show," The Christian Science Monitor (2013) No: Sabrina Strings,
from "Protecting What's White: A New Look at Stand Your Ground Laws," The
Feminist Wire (2014)
Patrik Jonsson, a staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor who writes
about race and gun rights, argues that 'stand your ground' laws are not
racially biased. He believes that such legislation is a response to the
increasing concern with self-defense that has been generated by events such
as 9/11 and the high rate of crime. Sabrina Strings, a sociologist at the
University of California who teaches in the School of Public Health and
Sociology, believes that 'stand your ground' laws are not racially neutral
and are primarily directed at African Americans. To Strings, 'stand your
ground' laws are reflective of an historical tendency to protect whites and
their property from a perceived threat from African Americans, especially
black males.
Issue: Should Children of Undocumented Immigrants Have a Birthright to U.S.
Citizenship?
Yes: Eric Foner, from "Birthright Citizenship Sets America Apart," The Cap
Times (2010) No: George F. Will, from "An Argument to Be Made about
Immigrant Babies and Citizenship," The Washington Post (2010)
Distinguished professor of history at Columbia University, Eric Foner
examines the legal and constitutional basis for granting birthright
citizenship and argues that this right illuminates the strength of American
society. Conservative newspaper columnist and commentator, George F. Will
is troubled by the facile tendency to grant birthright citizenship to the
children of undocumented immigrants. He views this practice as reflecting a
misinterpretation of the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment. He
vigorously opposes this policy.
Issue: Is There a Need for a Permanent Voting Rights Act?
Yes: Linda Greenhouse, from "The More Things Change...," The New York Times
(2013) No: Abigail Thernstrom, from "Redistricting, Race, and the Voting
Rights Act," National Affairs (2010)
Linda Greenhouse writes about the Supreme Court for the New York Times. She
expresses concern about the Court's attempts to invalidate Section 5 of the
Voting Rights Act. She leaves us with the implication that this development
is due to the ascendency of conservatism in American politics and the
continuing impact of race in legal and political decision-making. Abigail
Thernstrom, a political scientist, is a senior fellow at the Manhattan
Institute in New York. She has written extensively on race and voting
rights. She argues that it is time to end race-driven districting and that
certain sections, especially Section 5, of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
are no longer needed.
UNIT 5: Geography of Race
Issue: Is Environmental Racism a Reality?
Yes: Errol Schweizer, from "Environmental Justice: An Interview with Robert
Bullard," Earth First! Journal (1999) No: David Friedman, from "The
'Environmental Racism' Hoax," The American Enterprise (1998)
Errol Schweizer is a former Executive Global Grocery Coordinator at Whole
Foods Market. He is an advocate for organic and biodynamic foods.
Throughout his interview with Robert Bullard, known as the father of
environmentalism, Schweizer supports the claim that environmental racism is
an American reality. Schweizer cites Bullard's description of the
environmental justice movement as a combined concern for both the physical
and cultural environments. Throughout the interview, race is a factor for
unwanted land use. David Friedman, a writer and an MIT Japan fellow,
rejects any claim that environmental racism exists in the nation. He
asserts that the research utilized to support the existence of
environmental racism is flawed and that the data have not been properly
analyzed.
Issue: Is the Mass Incarceration of Blacks and Latinos the New Jim Crow?
Yes: James Kilgore, from "Racism and Mass Incarceration in the US
Heartland: Historical Roots of the New Jim Crow," Truthout (2015) No: James
Forman, Jr., from "Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New
Jim Crow," Racial Critiques (2012)
James Kilgore, through a study of the Midwestern criminal legal system,
argues that anti-black racism, especially in the Midwest, resulting in high
rates of incarceration, is determined by a number of factors. Decades of
segregation and deindustrialization have contributed to mass incarceration.
He argues that mass incarceration will not end unless there is a
restructuring of the regional economy along with an attack on white
supremacy. James Forman, Jr., a clinical professor of law at Yale Law
School and a noted constitutional law scholar, affirms the utility of the
new Jim Crow paradigm but argues that it has significant limitations. It
obscures significant facts regarding the history of mass incarceration as
well as black support for punitive criminal justice policy among other
deficiencies.
Issue: Is Gentrification Another Form of Segregation?
Yes: Jeremiah Moss, from "On Spike Lee & Hyper-Gentrification," Vanishing
New York (2014) No: Justin Davidson, from "Is Gentrification All Bad?" New
York Magazine (2014)
Jeremiah Moss, an urban based writer, views gentrification as a destructive
process through which African Americans and others are displaced by
affluent whites. He is concerned that communities with a rich culture and
stability are experiencing a significant uprooting of their homes and
communities due to gentrification. Justin Davidson, a writer for New York
Magazine, sees many positive outcomes that result from gentrification.
Among these are economic development, neighborhood revitalization, and
improvements in standards of living.
Issue: Is Black Lives Matter an Effective Civil Rights Organization?
Yes: Julia Craven, Ryan J. Reilly, and Mariah Stewart, from "The Ferguson
Protests Worked," The Huffington Post (2016) No: Barbara Reynolds, from "I
Was a Civil Rights Activist in the 1960s. But It's Hard for Me to Get
Behind Black Lives Matter," The Washington Post (2015)
Julia Craven, Ryan Reilly, and Mariah Stewart argue that the unrest which
accompanied the Ferguson protests were necessary to begin a reform process.
They cite several examples in which they assert that militant actions by
Black Lives Matter activists have had a positive impact in moving local,
state, and federal authorities to begin to implement reforms in the
criminal justice system of St. Louis County. Barbara Reynolds is former
editor and columnist for USA Today who was an activist in the civil rights
movement in the 1960s. Although she is committed to the goals of Black
Lives Matter, Reynolds is troubled by certain tactics and behaviors in
which movement members engage. Reynolds' concerns include her contention
that Black Lives Matter activists have not learned important lessons from
previous civil rights struggles, especially the civil rights movement. She
is also concerned that rather than seeking insight, wisdom, and guidance
from older generations of activists, they have tended to alienate the older
generation.