SELECTED ISSUES AFFECTING OTHER RACES

Johann Christine Alcaraz | Jot Dhaliwal | Jordan Ho Kay Alexis Caalim | Cynthia Chiu

ASAMST 141 ~ Oct. 15, 2012

The Beginnings of Slavery

- African civilization was also cruel and hierarchical. - Europeans used this fact to justify their own slave trade. - African slavery lacked the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic

agriculture; the reduction of the slave to less than human status.

Slavery was both a psychological and physical system.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.

Young Lawyer in East Coast Law Firm

Young Manager of a Service Firm

Race and Property Values FHA (Fair Housing Act) was enacted as an antidiscrimination statute However, residential segregation of African Americans continues to be pervasive Tipping Phenomenon How was this legally made possible?

The Law 1934 Code of Ethics of the National Association of Real Estate Boards Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) initiated the practice of redlining Were these practices done by the real estate industry constitutional? Do you think they created a form of legal segregation?

What now? Realtors to reach out to African America purchasers with advertising and

affirmative marketing Improve conditions in hyper-segregated urban neighborhoods Stop the steering of white property purchasers into believing the negative link of

black neighborhoods with decay and decline

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Do you think this is just a white/black issue or does it affect other races as well

(e.g., Asian-Americans)?

How can we see the effects of this in California today?

What repercussions could this residential segregation have for us in the future?

Plessy v. Ferguson

Holding: The states can constitutionally enact legislation requiring people of different races to use separate but equal segregated facilities

Do you think this case had an effect on the current segregation in residential communities?

Do you think this holding has affected Asian Americans legally and socially?

1. Remove the card taped under your seat. D O N O T O P E N C A R D .

2. Get group corresponding to the number on the outside of your card.

3. As a group, sit or stand in a circle.

4. Without looking at the inside of the card, tape/hold card to your forehead

so that the other members of your group can see the inside of your card.

5. Treat other people in group based on what their card says.

6. Discuss the IRAC for Plessy v. Ferguson.

Discussion What was your role, and how did you feel being treated the way you were? How did it affect your actions? How does this relate to how racism creates stereotypes?

Death Penalty Race of Victim Race of Defendant *Racial Discrimination?*

YES; According to study, there is racial discrepancy. Evidence from the Baldus study was deemed insufficient in order to

invalidate the death sentence upon McCleskey. Procedure Reform Study and Charging and Sentencing Study Would the sentencing be different for McCleskey if the evidence from

Baldus study were to be included in the court case?

Discussion Questions Was the Georgia Capital Sentencing system anti-ethical towards race? Would McCleskey still have been convicted on a death penalty even if he was not African American?

FOREIGN? Third Article of Constitution

Extent of the judicial power while Section 2

- Enumeration of cases to which it is extended, with controversies between a state or the citizens thereof. - (In this case, citizens would be the Cherokee Nation.) - Foreign vs . State Citizen?

In re Ah Yup: - Plaintiff Chinese - White = Common speech; Ordinary meaning; commonly regarded as equated to

intend Caucasian In re Najour: - Plaintiff Syrian - White = Ethnographic ; Scientific (Syrians classified as Caucasians)

Ex parte Shahid: - Plaintiff Syrian (Walnut color) - White = Europeans (descent argument void; refer to above)

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