Watch Race: The Power of Illusion Episode Three;The House We Live In
Answer the Following Questions:
1. Name a few of the ways in which the eastern-based U.S. legal systems (i.e. courts) in the late 19th and early 20th century attempted to construct the terms of being ‘American’ among immigrants and those already living in U.S. territories? What was the paradox of the Ozawa and Singh Thind cases in legal terms? How do the courts justify their assertion of whiteness?
3. What is the ‘bootstrap’ myth, and what kind of integration did it serve in the mid 20th century– for whom? How did it fit with the ‘colorblind’ narrative and what are the problems with this view?
4. How did public financial policy, including the 120 billion dollar subsidized housing market, construct whiteness and geographic-racialization in America? What was the difference between white collective culture versus black collective culture in terms of investment/divestment of public resources?
5. What is the starting point for the next generation of racial justice in the post civil rights era?
