Race/ethnicity

Gender

Sexual orientation

People with disabilties

Class

differential access to the goods services anbd opportunities of society by race, initial historical insult, structural barriers, inaction in face of need, societal norms, biological determinism, unearned privilege.

Gardeners tale- Separating the seed into two different soils

prejudice and discrimination where prejudice means differential assumptions about the ability motives and intentions of others according to their race. Can be intentional or unintentional

Gardeners tale- plucking the poor petals before they can go to seed

acceptance by members of the stigmatized races of negative messages about their own abilities and intrinsic worth

Gardeners tale- when the bee pollinate the pink flower and it says stop and dont bring me the pink pollen i want red

explicitracial derogation characterized primarily by verbal or nonverbal attack meant to hurt the intended victim through name calling avoidant behavior or purposeful discriminatory actions

Example-serving a white patron over a person of color

characterized by communication that convey rudeness and insensitivity and demeans a persons racial heritage or identity

Example- when a white employer tells a candidate of color "I believe the most qualified person regardless of race or when an employee of color is asked how did you get this job

communications that exclude negate or nullify the psychological thoughts feelings or experiential reality of a person of color

example- I dont see color

Laws prohibiting interracial marriage big political issue during the 1860’s. Primary purpose was to prevent offspring from acquiring property.

Collective complex trauma inflicted on groups who share a specific group identity or affiliation ethnicity nationality and religious affiliation

Must account for multiplicity, mutual blending/overlapping of political salient categories (race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class); expanding one another and mutually constituting one another's meaning.

Reflective self-awareness, Reflexive self-awareness, Critical reflectivity

Any person with any African ancestry is black and can never be considered white.

Established that states could not deny an individual the right to marry a person of a different race

People believe that it is biological but in fact it is socially constructed

Framework for analysis- allows us to move beyond the goal of learning about and appreciating diversity to engage in an exploration of the multiple and complex power relations of difference

5 forms of multiculturism

·         Conservative

·         Liberal

·         Pluralist

·         Left-essentialist

 ·         Critical

(CCLLP)

Whiteness makes one invisible/transparent.  White considered the norm by which all others are judged.  Whites don't have to think about their own race and implications of being white.

Slavery Legalization of interracial marriage (Loving v. Virginia 1967) 2000 census Election of President Obama as a mixed racial person

·         More recent/inclusive/ecological based theories of multiracial identity guide methodology

·         more inclusive sampling,

·         more culturally sensitive measures/instrumentations,

·         Include multiracial persons on research team

·         Educational attainment

·         Health insurance

·         Adequate and affordable child care

·         Stable jobs

·         Incomes that pay a living wage

“We live in our world were identity matters”

"Questions of culture seem to touch a nerve because they quickly become anguished questions of identity"

"We’ve pretty much come to the end of a time when you can have a space that is yours only- just for the people you want to be there…to a large extent its because we have just finished with that kind of isolating. There is no hiding place. There is no where you can go and only be with people who are like you. Its over give up."