Question

WEEK 1 HOMEWORK (based on your week 1 assignment)

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.

Identify and define at least 5 fallacies about racism.

What areas of life does racism affect?

Define the two types of racism (institutional and interpersonal).

What is symbolic violence when it comes to race?

At one time Jews dominated basketball; now it is a game almost exclusively for African Americans. The text authors identify at least two reasons why both of these groups came to dominate the game? What are those reasons?

Which group of people erected the original section of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.?

List at least 5 examples of how whiteness surrounds us though it often goes unnamed.

Define the phrase “white privilege.” Give at least 3 examples.

Who wrote, “Color is not a human or personal reality; it is a political reality.”

Why do the authors argue that race is a symbolic category?

What is the difference between race and ethnicity?

Briefly describe the case of Abdullah Dolla.

Has race always remained a fixed category in the U.S. or is it more fluid?

Who is Tim Wise?

He argues that before 1600 there was no such thing as the white race. What happened to change this?

What were indentured servants? Where did they come from?

According to Wise, what was the U.S. Civil War fought over?

Name a few of the “carrots” slave owners threw out to poor whites.

How did slavery undermine white working class job?

What did Chalmette, Louisiana do after Hurricane Katrina to keep the town white?

Answer 1

Q.1. Identify and define at least 5 fallacies about racism

Individualistic fallacy – racism belongs to the state of notions and biases. It is just a collection of nasty thoughts a racist person of this kind has for a group. Any individual operating under this fallacy has a mindset of fallacy as a crime and thus he divides the people into two types.

1. Those guilty of crime of racism i.e. racists
2. Those innocent of the crime i.e. non-racists

Legalistic Fallacy. —This fallacy amalgamates rightful legal progress with existing racial progress. Any person who functions under this legalistic fallacy believes that eradicating laws of racism unintentionally leads to the elimination of racism in practice.

Tokenistic Fallacy - One operating under the tokenistic fallacy believes that the existence of people of colour in powerful spots is evident of the annihilation of racial problems.

Ahistorical Fallacy - This fallacy pronounces history powerless. The people operating under Ahistorical Fallacy think that events that occurred way in the past does not have any kind of significance to our present lives. They think that actions that occurred in history are too extraneous to be relevant to things happening in present world.

Fixed Fallacy - Those who accept that racism is unchangeable i.e.persistent across space and time participate in the fixed fallacy. And because experts of the fixed fallacy habitually take as their typical classification of racism only the most atrocious forms, for example racial violence.

Q.3 The two types of racism are

Individual racism – This type of racism believes that race of that person is superior to another i.e. (racial bias) and demonstrates behaviours that override the inferior race i.e. (racial discrimination). Examples include partiality, demeaning, and envy. It also includes racial labelling, categorizing persons according to race, and thinking that some races are better than others.

Institutional racism - This type of racism takes the form of the rituals, duties, rules, and morals of organizations which includes governments that needlessly disadvantage persons because of their colour, ethnicity or race. It comprises of traditional rules, taxes, and duties that methodically replicate and crop racial inequalities.

Q.4 Symbolic violence when it comes to race - In the case of racial domination, symbolic violence mentions the procedure of people of colour unknowingly acquired and assisting the rules of their own domination, thus acting as managers who conspire in the circumstances from which they suffer. Symbolic violence functions by virtue of the fact that the dominated observe and respond to the edifices and progressions that control them through methods of thought and, indeed, also of feeling which are themselves the creation of domination.

The order of things comes to seem to them expected, obvious, and genuine. Such an understanding neither endows everything to organizational action nor faults the unfortunate victim. The only method to comprehend this specific form of domination is to move beyond the compulsory choice between limitation by forces.