1. Bellwork 11-10/11 What is the difference between race and ethnicity? What is a minority? What role does race and/or ethnicity play in our society. Does it pull people together or push them apart?

2. Patterns of Intergroup Relations

3. Discrimination Denial of equal treatment to individuals based on their group membership. – Behavior Can be on a social or individual level. – Name calling – Rudeness – Acts of violence

4. Types of Discrimination Legal Discrimination- – Upheld by law – Apartheid in South Africa – Segregation in USA Institutionalized Discrimination- – An outgrowth of the structure of a society.

5. Prejudice An unsupported generalization about a category of people. – Attitudes Individuals form an image of a particular group and then apply the image to all members of the group.

6. Prejudice Stereotype- – An oversimplified, exaggerated, or unfavorable view about a group of people.

7. Prejudice Self-Fulfilling Prophecy- – A prediction that results in behavior that makes the prediction come true. Widely believed myth African American’s swimming ability was compromised by an innate deficit of buoyancy. Result: High rates of African American drowning due to high percentages of African Americans who never learned how to swim. + Lack of access to pools Many African Americans did not teach their children to swim.

8. Cullen Jones Gold medal winner and world record holder in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.

9. Prejudice Prejudice often acts as justification for discrimination. Racism- – The belief that one’s own race or ethnic group is naturally superior to other races or ethnic group.

10. Patterns of Prejudice and Discrimination Timid Bigot Prejudiced Person who does not discriminate All-Weather Liberal Nonprejudiced person who does not discriminate Active Bigot Prejudiced person who discriminates. Fair-Weather Liberal Nonprejudiced person who discriminates. Prejudice YesNo Discrimination Yes No

11. Do we still have a racism problem?

12. Black Prom and White Prom? Montgomery County High School in Mount Vernon, Georgia. – Just one of many segregated proms currently in the United States. – Prom Night in Mississippi Prom Night in Mississippi

13. Sources of Discrimination and Prejudice Pages 240-242 – Summarize: Sociological Explanations Psychological Explanations – Define Scapegoat Economic Explanations Recreate the “A Continuum of Intergroup Relations” chart on page 242. – Come up with an example of each.