UGC 211 1st EditionLecture 1Outline of Last Lecture**No past lecture**Outline of Current LectureI. Importance of Race, Class and GenderII. Metaphor for OppressionIII. Similarities between Irish and Chinese and Native AmericansOutline of Current LectureI. Why race, class, and gender still matter?a. It is still important because racism and class still happenII. Race, Class and Gender still matter because discrimination have deep roots in our culturea. Systematic oppression exists stillIII. 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 escapei. 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 outIV. US is a diverse country since the beginning – history of immigrantsV. Have to recognize that all our histories are interconnected and without push and pull of other groups, America wouldn’t be like thisVI. Rodney Kinga. African Americanb. Pulled over for routine traffic violation and because he was African Americanc. The white cops beat Kingd. Someone caught the act on tape and the cops were tried in court and got off and was not chargede. People were outraged and violent riots beganThese 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.f. King’s reaction was that he wanted to ask for peace and asked, “Can’t we all just get along?”VII. Is there a need to target a group?VIII. Not only African Americans are targeted as a group; Asian Americans are targeted as well.IX. Asian Americansa. Chinese Exclusion Act: first act to prohibit a race from immigrationX. Japanesea. Concentration camps: Japanese on the West coast were put in campsXI. Chicano (Mexicans)a. Mexico was colonized by the U.S.b. Besides Mexico City, Los Angelos has the second biggest Mexican Populationc. Border changed and all of a sudden Mexicans became illegalXII. Similarities between Irish and Chinese and Native Americansa. 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 goodsXIII. Irish Immigrant Advantages:a. They blended in as white people because:i. Whiteii. Spoke Englishiii. 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 cannibalsXIV. Jewish Immigrant Advantages:a. Well educated, skilled workers, middle classb. Came because they were religiously persecutedc. Jew students and Jews themselves linked themselves to races that were oppressedi. Freedom Summer when students from Northeast went to South to help African Americans vote - Freedom Riders (mainly Jewish college students)XV. Marilyn Frye’s article, “Oppression” says race is a social construction.a. Biologically we are the