Week 2 Science and Race Most people believe races evolved in the nature or were created supernaturally Racism is generated by a worldview that can be corrected by historical knowledge grows from confusion Problem with IQ tests is that there is no definition of intelligence or how to measure it One drop rule anyone with a small amount of african american is considered black MAIN IDEAS Racism is non existent and people are inevitably the same Week 4 Color blindness is counterproductive The dominant idea around racism is color blindness The idea to ignore race allows people to ignore manifestations of persistent discrimination Colorblindness allows us to avoid the problems in society MAIN IDEAS Color blindness is not the way to approach racism because it ignores the problems in society that we need to address How race consciousness can affect relationships Creating people who are race consciousness or anti racist not color blind Exam Being a good person means constantly reminding black people of their blackness The race conscious approach is what should happen Week 5 Sure black liives matter but why do they have to loot and riot Blacks are exhausted by the justice and rights wheel turning so slowly Blacks are less educated more imprisoned and more likely to be killed than white There have been major increases in black representation in politics and the economy americans Blacks do not perform as well on act sat Protests and pictures on media after george floyd Police ignored white mobs and arrest black americans for protecting themselves Protest paradigm a framework for understanding how protests are perceived and Instead of these protests being viewed as reasonable they were viewed as violent represented in the media and the impact that these representations have on the media The riot and violence frame highlights the acts of violence over the other processes The confrontation frame highlights protestors negative interactions with the police The spectacle frame highlights strange aspects of the protest such as attire Racial projects interpretations and presentations of racial dynamics that seek to redistribute or maintain current distribution of goods resources and power MAIN IDEAS Blacks are protesting to protect themselves and it is being perceived in the wrong way because of the media Color blindness is a way of ignoring the anti racism processes