Directions
Read Witt Chapter 13Download Witt Chapter 13 and answer the following questions in your own words. At least one paragraph each.
- What is racial profiling? Provide specific examples of how law enforcement, government officials, and/or ordinary citizens use racial profiling (You can think about current events such as the ICE raids). How might the contact hypothesis remedy racial profiling?
- Discuss various ethnocentric practices historically used by those in power that have contributed to prejudicial attitudes towards racial and minority groups.
- What is the social construction of race? Provide a symbolic interactionist perspective. How can this concept (social construction of race) be applied to Americans from multiple racial backgrounds?
- Define the term model minority. Discuss which minority group is perceived as living up to that image. Discuss advantages and disadvantages of being a model minority.