UGC 211 1st Edition Lecture 1 Outline of Last Lecture No past lecture Outline of Current Lecture I Importance of Race Class and Gender II Metaphor for Oppression III Similarities between Irish and Chinese and Native Americans Outline of Current Lecture I II III IV V VI Why race class and gender still matter a It is still important because racism and class still happen Race Class and Gender still matter because discrimination have deep roots in our culture a Systematic oppression exists still Metaphor for Oppression a What does the birdcage represent i The birdcage represents the societal structure of oppression and the macroscopic phenomenon the big picture b Having a myopic view looking at just the wire in the birdcage and wondering why the bird in the cage doesn t fly around the cage to escape i Myopic narrow minded c Having a macroscopic view looking at the birdcage and seeing that all the wires are intertwined which makes it impossible for the bird to fly out US is a diverse country since the beginning history of immigrants Have to recognize that all our histories are interconnected and without push and pull of other groups America wouldn t be like this Rodney King a African American b Pulled over for routine traffic violation and because he was African American c The white cops beat King d Someone caught the act on tape and the cops were tried in court and got off and was not charged e People were outraged and violent riots began These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV f King s reaction was that he wanted to ask for peace and asked Can t we all just get along Is there a need to target a group Not only African Americans are targeted as a group Asian Americans are targeted as well Asian Americans a Chinese Exclusion Act first act to prohibit a race from immigration Japanese a Concentration camps Japanese on the West coast were put in camps Chicano Mexicans a Mexico was colonized by the U S b Besides Mexico City Los Angelos has the second biggest Mexican Population c Border changed and all of a sudden Mexicans became illegal Similarities between Irish and Chinese and Native Americans a Irish are similar to Chinese and Native Americans because British came into their homeland and pushed them out put limitations on Irish religious and economic b When British went to China they wanted their goods and traded China opium and opium is from India and got China addicted to opium to trade for goods Irish Immigrant Advantages a They blended in as white people because i White ii Spoke English iii Most of them were gentiles noneducated b they stuck together in the cities and took jobs that were community service type jobs which integrated them into the community so they were not savages because they were labeled as savages once they got the U S because they were sick and starved and people thought they were cannibals Jewish Immigrant Advantages a Well educated skilled workers middle class b Came because they were religiously persecuted c Jew students and Jews themselves linked themselves to races that were oppressed i Freedom Summer when students from Northeast went to South to help African Americans vote Freedom Riders mainly Jewish college students Marilyn Frye s article Oppression says race is a social construction a Biologically we are the same