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MINORITIES, CRIME AND SOCIAL POLICYPlease Note: The following questions are derived from Mann & Zatz’s Images of Color, Images of Crime. These questions are not intended to provide an exhaustive review or summary of the information that you will be examined on. This is supplementary material and should be used in conjunction with class notes/discussions and a detailed reading of the chapters. Be sure to answer the discussion questions at the end of each chapter. Memorizing this material alone will not adequately prepare you for the exam. Don’t forget to review the information (study guide) from the Russell “Color of Crime” Book.Forward & Introduction1. How does Derrick Bell define “Crime” and the linkage between color and crime?CHAPTER ONEChapter 5, The Invisible White Privilege. Color, and Crime: A Personal Account by Peggy McIntoshCHAPTER SIX : Suzan Shown Harjo1. According to Harjo, where did Columbus think he was when he landed?2. What was the Catholic Churches’ position on whether Indians are human?3. According to Harjo, where was the term “Squaw” taken from?Chapter 08: `Hot Blood and Easy Virtue’: Mass Media and the making of RacistLatino/a Stereotypes by Diego Castro1. According Castro, how does Hollywood filmmaker’s portray Latino’s and Latina’s?Chapter 18IMAGES OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, LATINOS. GANGS., AND DRUGSEdwardo Portillos1. What was the treaty of Guadeloupe Hildalgo?FINAL STUDY GUIDE - SPRING 2012MINORITIES, CRIME AND SOCIAL POLICYPLEASE NOTE! CHAPTERS 10, 12 ,15 & THE CONCLUSION WILL BE COVERED ON THE EXAM, BUT ARE NOT INCLUDED ON THE STUDYGUIDE.Please Note: The following questions are derived from Mann & Zatz’s Images ofColor, Images of Crime. These questions are not intended to provide an exhaustivereview or summary of the information that you will be examined on. This issupplementary material and should be used in conjunction with classnotes/discussions and a detailed reading of the chapters. Be sure to answer thediscussion questions at the end of each chapter. Memorizing this material alone willnot adequately prepare you for the exam. Don’t forget to review the information(study guide) from the Russell “ C o l or of C r i m e ” B o o k. Mann & Zatz’s Images of Color, Images ofCrimeForward & Introduction1. How does Derrick Bell define “Crime” and the linkage between color and crime?Crime is that conduct a society finds threatening, and when that conduct is that of persons of color, it is particularly threatening-the actor becoming a greater danger than the deed. Popular perceptions of crime and criminality are racialized. By linking images of color with images of crime, the stereotypes underlying the media reporting on crime and criminality are very apparent. 2. According to Derrick Bell, is “racism” a temporary or permanent phenomenon in America?Permanent. 3. According to Mann & Zatz, which racial/ethnic group has been the subject of the greatest number of empirical studies? Why?African Americans. First reason, when people in many differentareas think of race, particularly people of European decent, they think of blacks. Second, up until very recently, the U.S Census Bureau, local police depts, courts, etc have only recorded ethnicity as white-nonwhite OR black-white-other. So,because so little data is available, quantitative research on theexperiences of other groups via the CJS is difficult. It wasn’t until the 2000 Census that US population counts included categories for multiethnic and multiracial responses. This all leads to the third reason, because far more empirical studiesof blacks have been addressed with crime and criminal injustice than those of any other group, more information is available that authors can draw. (Side note, it mentions that this book devotes equal attention to all groups including Euro-Americans. Pgs 1-2)4. What is Mann & Zatz’s position on “race”?Race is a social construction. This means 3 things 1. Race is NOT a fixed identity- it is social decided rather than biologically determined. 2. Racial categories and the meanings attached make sense only in their historical contexts and in light of specific social relations. 3. Racial dynamics are flexible, fluid, and always political. In some contexts, attributions of race can change over night. An example, in Brazil, one’s “color” is based more on SES and social status rather than one’s skin color. So, it is possible thateven if you are lighter skinned there but poor, you are regarded as darker than you really are.(pg 2)5. What definition does Mann & Zatz offer for the term “racism”? (borrowed from Omi and Winant).Racism can be defined as social practices which (explicitly or implicitly) attribute merits or allocate values to members of racially categorized groups solely because of their “race.” (Side note, like race, racism is socially constructed. Racism also must be multifaceted and flexible-The form in which racism presents itself change, as social conditions change.)6. What is “intersectionality” as defined by Mann & Zatz?This correlates with he 11th * under my additional notes. Count down. Most of the time you cannot separate race, gender, and ethnicity. When you try to separate any one of them, you risk splitting the person in two- this is what “intersectionality” refers to. For example, a black woman is never just black, she’s also a woman. She is also never just a woman, she is alsoblack. So, in easy words, intersectionality is defined as the splitting a person in two when attempting to separate gender, ethnicity, and race.7. How does Georges-Abeyie define “petite apartheid realities”?It’s another aspect of institutionalized racism. These are the everyday activities that contribute to poor relations between the police and persons of color, such as routine stop-and-question or stop-and-frisk law enforcement practices. (more info about institutionalized racism in my additional notes section).8. How do Mann & Zatz define Racial Formation?The process by which people attach meaning and importance to racial categories. The meaning and material consequences attached to being black are different now from what they were at the height of the civil rights movement under slavery.9. What is Individual & Societal Racial Formation?At the individual level, racial formation is part of the process by which people formulate their identities. At the societal level,


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