race and racialization (in cyberspace)

race and racialization doesn't occour in cyberspace. there is no way to tell by speaking to someone over the internet what race they are or if they are a man woman a child disabled or anything. McPherson's article describes the lack of race and racialization in cyberspace and how because of this whitening of the internet occurs.

cyberspace

the electron medium of computers in which online comunication takes place.

Heritage

Where ones liniage comes from. something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth; an inherited lot or portion. McPherson describes in her article how the southerners are trying to protect their heritage by protecting the south and making aware the lost causes.

@Race

A command used in a MUD to define race.

Identity Tourism

The ideology that the internet makes everything obsolite except our minds. Race doesnt matter because there is no race on the internet. Also we are able to have multipul selves as described in in the article by McPherson.

Race V. Ethnicity

Race and Ethnicity were two in the same to me in these chapters. When I think of race I think of racism but I don’t think in this chapter they differentiated between race and ethnicity. I think if you were anything other than American you were discriminated against.

Stratified

Stratified- In Takaki’s article he uses this term to describe the line between races and social order. Example is how the bosses were whites. Also that “Everything depended on race and even shit”

Resistance

Resistance- Not giving into low wages and stand up for what one believes in

Model Minority

Model Minority: Used to describe Japanese people in Takais article. The reason they were the model minority is because they were preceded as passive people who did not really create any problems.

American Dream

American Dream: An concept that when people come to America they will find great wealth and that they will be free do pursue any dream they want.

GI BILL

The GI Bill: any of various Congressional bills enacted to provide funds for college educations, home-buying loans, and other benefits for armed-services veterans.

Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action- A us law implemented making it mandatory for certain organizations/universities to maintain an proportional number of minority employees reflecting usually the population. Brodkin states that affirmative action is something that helped Jews succeed.

WRA

The War Relocation Authority was the government at the time. What happened is after the war the Japanese were looked at as terrorist so they were all made to go live in internment camps so the government could look after them.

Jim Crow Laws

referring to one being "seperate but equal" which also resulted in the unfair treatment of blacks after slavery had ended

Emancipation

to be free. referring to slaves. but as we read in zinn's article simply because one is emancipated does not guarantee freedom.

Free Labor

Since the slaves did everything to cultivate the land the slaves are the ones who should own the land.

abolitionist

A person who fought to try and end slavery. Preferable blacks instead of whites due to unconscious racism.

White Mans Burden

the idea that whites have to deal with blacks. whites have to deal with civilizing black too.

Scientific Racism

the belief that whites were superior because black according to science were apart of a different species making them inferior.

Giddy Multitude

a discontented class of indentured servants, slaves, and landless freemen both white and black, the Stephanos and the Trinculos as well as the Calibans of Virginia. I believe that this is the title because in this chapter we learned that slavery was not just a black issue.

Assimilation

people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

Manifest Destiny

the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences.

The Matrix of Domination

The Matrix of Domination can be found on page 51, it is the term coined by Patricia Hill Collins. This term refers how each particular form of privilege is part of a bigger system. You cannot predict how one aspect of privilege weighs on a person.

InDiViDuAlIsM:

The social world begins and ends with individuals. Individuals push the blame onto others. When and individual can’t see themselves as part of the problem its hard to see an individual in the solution. Makes us blind to privilege because privilege has nothing to do with individuals. Individuals participate in a social system.

Getting off the Hook

This is a term used also to push the blame on others to help deny any effects that oppression or privilege has on others. People will often used terms such as “I wasn’t trying to do that” to diffuse the blame from themselves. Bottom line, people don’t like to feel guilty therefore they will do what they have to do to place blame on others or make themselves feel less guilty.

Vocab 1

Race (and biology): A social category that bears a name. Usually refering to ones skin color, or region they are from. + Johnson adds how the reason we gave names to race was simply an idea- like the idea of being white that it somehow make people better than others. It also doesn't have as much to do with privilge and oppression as once thought.

Ethnicity: ethnic traits, background, or affiliation

Ethnic Studies: the study of different ethnic groups in hopes that one w

History: a record of past events

Progress: a movement toward a goal

Social Construction: Society created race and all its categories but they have no meaning outside of privilege and opression . + Privilege and Oppression are becoming bigger obsticals because of the way our society is formed. The reason being is because people follow the path of least resistance and because people dont want to stray away from what is considered normal then its going to be a big hurdle getting over privilge and oppression.

Genocide: the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political or cultural group.

Ideological (as used by Zinn page 9): It is used by Zinn meaning mapmaker's as a group and the way they think.

Privilege: exists when one group has somthing of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to, trather than becuase of anything they've done or failed to do + It is not individualistic

Oppression: social forces that tend to "press" on people and hold them down, to hem them in and block their pursit of a good life. + because of people taking the path of least resistance opression will continue to hold people down. Also oppression came into play with the expanding economy and captialism.

Racialization: Racialization is the process by which race comes to have meaning as a category. It is also the process each one of us goes through in order to have a racial identity. In other words, we are not just born “white” or born “black” – what it means to us to be “white” or “black” changes in our social interactions with others throughout our lives. This means that race develops meaning through social interaction, instead of merely existing as concrete, independently verifiable fact.