TEACHSOC: Re: racial categories exercise

[Del Thomas Ph D]

John's post reminds me how long we have been teaching race... often in segregated classrooms. Very often the educational system reflects white cluelessness ( really ignorance in the sense that lives of color are ignored)  about people of color...that is regardless of the color of the educator.  For example, I have found that white students and professionals do not consider white a race..... this is typically ignored regardless of the color of the presenter. Some questions 1. In the context of WI Thomas.  Since none of these methods have been tested, can we be sure that using these methods do not promote racialism. 2.  In the context of the Zimbardo study What are the learning impacts taken from exercises in an academic setting. What are we forced to condone. Del John Glass wrote: this slipped my mind until i saw Susan's post...i use the PBS Frontline Video (also available streaming on the Frontline site), "A class divided" -- this is the 3rd grade teacher in Iowa in 1970 or 72 who segregates the class based on eye color. within a very short period of time, all of the dynamics of prejudice and discrimination emerge. i typically stop and start the DVD numerous times to make the point of how arbitrary categories are and yet how great the impact is that they have on our behavior. i also checked my Eurekalert RSS feed yesterday and found this...thought it was timely: Male murderers with stereotypically ''black-looking'' features are more than twice as likely to get the death sentence than lighter-skinned African American defendants found guilty of killing a white person, Stanford researchers have found. The relationship between physical appearance and the death sentence disappears, however, when both murderers and their victims are black. <http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/su-sc052506.php> john John E. Glass, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology Division of Social & Behavioral Sciences Colin County Community College Preston Ridge Campus 9700 Wade Boulevard Frisco, TX 75035 +1-972-377-1622 http://iws.ccccd.edu/jglass/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We are more concerned about the discovery of knowledge than with its dissemination" B. F. Skinner Subject: Fw: Stereotypically 'black-looking' criminals more likely to get death sentence, researchers find From: John E Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:34:25 -0700 (PDT) To: john glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: john glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   John E. Glass, Ph.D. Consulting Sociologist +1 214.500.7812 Skype Me P.O. Box 670072 Dallas, TX 75367-0072 ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 1:48:12 PM Subject: Stereotypically 'black-looking' criminals more likely to get death sentence, researchers find Male murderers with stereotypically ''black-looking'' features are more than twice as likely to get the death sentence than lighter-skinned African American defendants found guilty of killing a white person, Stanford researchers have found. The relationship between physical appearance and the death sentence disappears, however, when both murderers and their victims are black. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/su-sc052506.php --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to teachsoc@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---