Human Diversity

• 1700s mass immigration when britain took over- due to religion
• 1845- potato famine- escaping starvation/persecution, seeking better economy

• willing to work for low wages
• lose jobs

• immoral
• unintelligent
• hot tempered
• drunks
• fighers
• corrupt in business
• can't be trusted

• 1860- seeking economic opportunities
• mainly from southern italy
• Union movement

low wages, same as Irish

• unintelligent
• trouble makers
• emotional
• jealous
• mafia involved

• scarcity in economic opportunities
• in competition for low wages, limited housing, similar education opportunities
• began to work together

set low quotas for certain immigrant groups

• fleeing religious persecution from all over
• spain and portugal
• germany
• Europe
• US has the largest Jewish Population

• did not come seeking economic stability
• fleeing persecution
• competed with middle and upper society

• cheap
• materialistic
• unfair negotiators

• prejudice/discrimination due to religion
• ethnic enclaves in lg cities
• ethnic distinction-practicing jews, clothing, etc
• persistent stereotypes
• catholic church issues

• for life
• inherited
• could not own/inherit property
• considered to be property
• no rights

• January 1, 1863
• Lincoln freed the slaves

Documented date when slaves heared about EP

officially abolished slavery in the US

gave citizenship to those born in or naturalized in the US

prohibited denial of voting rights for men on grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

series of laws put in place to disenfranchize the freed slaves and other minority groups

• legalized separate but equal
• rail cars
• water fountains

• formal challenge to Plessy ruling in area of EDUCATION
• separate but equal has no place in education

• SCLC
• organized by MLK
• marches, protests, etc.

• outlawed Jim Crow practices
• Malcolm X and MLK in same place

• de facto segregation
• low academic completion
• poverty
• loan discrimination
• incarceration rates

• tribes treated as separate nations
• led to Indian removal act

• biggest result of US Policy of separation
• relocated eastern tribes to west of Mississippi
• trail of tears

shift in policy to assimilate tribes into US population

• Dawes Act
• encourage assimilation
• used blood quantum
• given land and 25 years... most land was assumed back

• established to hear disputes with Dawes act
• good in theory, but now real power

• phasing out
• intedted to give independence, but tribes weren't stable

• AIM
• black panthers
• increase in cultural pride
• used confrontation and media attn to resolve issues
• fish ins
• alcatraz

• tribal control over edu opportunities
• est. tribally run colleges
• prevent brain drain
• walton scholars

• lower life expectancy rates
• most likely to be crime victims
• high suicide
• high addiction
• low academic completion
• casinos
• identifiability

• spanish speaking
• soon to be largest sub-population in US

• resolution of Mexican-American War
• US Paid 15 mil. to annex TX, NM, AZ, and most of CA

• rounded up migrant farm workers and put them in MX but didn't check status
• those not repatriated joined together- barros

• contract between Mexico and US gov.
• contracted mexicans to work as farm workers
• braceros- no legal rights

• derogatory statement about legal status
• went to border towns and rounded them up and shipped them back

granted unrestricted acces btw island and mainland US

• Full citizen rights.
• No representation.

• Carter
• Welcome anyone from cuba

• Castro took advantage of freedom fotilla
• Opp to clear out bad weeds

• LAnguage
• Low academia
• Poverty
• Limited acces to hc

• Chinese
• Filipino
• Japanese
• Asian
• Korean

• Head tax
• $55 per head
• Angel island

• Due to gold rush
• Limit immigration

Excluded from ceremony

• Head tax is unconstututional
• Over ruled california outlawing

Suspended chinese imm for 10 years

• Expempt for merchants
• Students
• Teachers
• Gov officials

• Shady
• Restricted who could potentially come to us
• No passports etc.

• Prohibited anyone not a citizen from owning property.
• Basic means of stabilty

Pearl harbor

• Feb. 9, 1942
• Military zones
• Relocation camps
• Forced to sell property unless left with trustee

System of rotating loans within Korean American communities

• Access to jobs, business
• Close proximity
• 1992 riots- businesses damages

Granted deferred independence and an annual quota of 50

• Language
• Cultural
• Hc limits
• High academia
• High income
• Model minority

Anuone who speaks an arabic lanuage, practices islam, or identifies with arab traditions

Limites citizenship to free white persons

• Increased government authority to detain and interogate individuals suspecte of links to terrorism
• Suspended civil rights tose suspected

expands government power to detain, question, and deport, indefinite detention, warrent-less searches

• identifiability
• high academic completion rate
• high median income
• increase in pol. participation
• fear of crimes and descrimination
• prevalent stereotypes

• kinsey research estimated 10% of pop
• more likely around 5%

• lesbian
• gay
• bisexual
• transexual
• intertersexual
• questioning

• believes to be born wrong gender
• cross dressers

hermaphrodite

• easy to identify
• unproductive
• universal lifestyle
• promiscuous
• sexually obsessed
• sexual predators
• AIDS
• bad parents
• it is about you

harm to the dominant group comes in the broadest sense from the suppression and loss ofhuman talent from which we could all benefit and heterosexism thus has parallels in this regard to racism and sexism- Neubeck

Stonewall riots in NYC 1969

• crimes motivated by bias that target persons based on their actual or perceived race, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity or ethnicity
• Matthew Shepherd-UofW homosexual
• James Bared- TX black guy and truck

• protests
• gay marriage
• rights
• reorientation therapies
• businesses

• based on arbitrary age of 65+
• expectations differ by gender

• income
• healthcare
• economy changes- stocks, investments
• programs

• insurance coverage
• retirement benefits
• protection from abuse
• laws concerning: driing, grandchildren, death
• activism, volunteering

the suffrage movement in the U.S. began in 1830s and is linked with the abolition movement

supreme court ruled that females born in US were a special category of non voting citizens

gave women right to vote

protection from sex based discrimination

prohibits discrimination on bases of sex in EDUCATION

individuals can not be excluded f/m a jury due to gender

• agency that investigates gender discrimination cases
• sexual harrassment

• pay equity
• feminization of poverty
• family role expectations
• glass ceiling
• helath and mental health concerns

handicapped

provided funding for rehab and occupational training for soldiers who had been at war

• modified version of national defense act
• expanded defense act to provide services for general public

provided specific funding for the assistance of the elderly, blind, and children with disabilities

• 1st severely disabled student to attend a University
• Berkeley

mandated physical accommodations in federal buildings

mandated all urban transit systems accommodate the differently abled

advocacy group established to form compliance with urban mass transit act

• outlawed case "creaming"- most severe first
• est. affirmative actions in government contracting
• more funding for architectural barriers in public places

• created mainstreaming
• established IEP
• funding for early intervention
• focus on least restrictive education environment

prohibits disrimination in selling and renting on basis of race, sex, disability, family status, and nat. origin

• prohibits discrimination in
• employment
• transportation
• telecommunications
• public places
• public services

• larges subpopulation
• genetic research
• insurance coverage
• diagnostic term
• unemployment rate and poverty have highest rate of hany subpopulation

• blueprint or program for what humans do
• gives meaning to the world for the individuals

• people rarely challenge what is familliar- status quo
• culture shapes our thoughts, feelings, etc

• human survival
• classification of the world
• interpretation of behavior
• means of problem solving
• socialization
• social org and control
• values and behaviors are provided

• identity/role expectations
• communication
• beliefs/attitudes
• appearance
• social behavior
• emotional expression

culture provides the context for how biological needsa re to be met

learning the basic social/mental skills necessary for functioning in human society

occurs from primary caretakers

• occurs from broader influences in society
• school, church,e tc

culture influences what evokes emotion, how emotions are expressed or inhibited and their social significance

many cultural adaptaions for gender roles- they are an important source of info about culture

• aspects of social interaction such as social rules that are acquired without deliberate attention
• children
• eye contact
• personal space

despite individual differences within cultures people behave in similar manners

cultural influences are so pervasive that even when someone is devient, they follow cultural patterns

influences on: access to resources, safely issues, personal choices