describes how race as a social construct becomes very divisive

2.  SWBAT give examples of how race has
been used as a tool of divisiveness
 SWBAT to see how the hegemony has been
able to change the definition of race over
time

3.  Define the term culture
 What is affected by culture?
 Does culture have a plural or singular nature?

4.  What is race?
 In your own words?
 How have we redefined the word race?
 What is the biological foundation of race?
 Where did the concept race originate from?
 Why did the people in charge feel a need to
separate the races?

5.  For generations I would argue that in the US,
the concept of race has been polarized
between black and white.
 How do you think the recent immigration
issues in the US may challenge those views?

6.  The American Revolution
 Who had privileges of full citizenship?
 White males

7.  Read through paragraph 3
 What other groups were in the US at the
time?
 How did Congress react to Charles Sumners
Suggestion?

8.  What words were used to describe the
“others”?
 Why do you think that other groups were
described like this?

9.  Who is white?
 Who decides who is white?
 Read through paragraph 4

10.  Who was making the distinction of
whiteness?
 Were the Chinese considered white?
 What were they?

11.  Armenians?
 Hawaiians?
 Turks?
 Indians?
 Mexicans?
 Native Americans?

12.  According to Mathew Frye Jacobson, race has
been used to guard what?
 Not for understanding global relationships
among the world’s people.

13.  Takao Ozawa
 Japanese immigrant
 Petitioned the court
 US citizen
 1875 law=Africans are citizens
 Also, Judges had previously ruled
 Anyone not black was white

14.  Read paragraph 7 to find out?

15.  Why?
 WTH???
 White but not Caucasian?
 Caucasian but not white?
 What is Caucasian anyway?

16.  Google Caucasian!
 What does it mean?

17.  Immigration
 1924
 Who’s being included?
 Who’s being excluded?
 1965
 Who’s being included?
 Who’s being excluded?
 P.9
 1991-1994
 Who’s being included?
 Who’s being excluded?

18.  Who decides which differences matter?
 How is that point of view enforced?
 What do the Supreme Court rulings suggest
about the meaning of race?
 What do they suggest about race and its
relationship to power?

19.  Census-I looked for the results of the 2010
census-empty handed 
 What do the numbers suggest about the 1965
law?
 What do they suggest about the 1990 law?

20.  That the 1990 law has racial and ethnic
biases built into it.
 What are those biases?
 How are they held to the ones held in
earlier US history?
 What differences seem most striking?