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By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race. - Review... - 0 views

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  • Leonard Steinhorn (who is white) and Barbara Diggs-Brown (who is black) argue that th
  • fantasy of representational diversity hinders actual racial progress, which they define as black and white integration.
  • see it: America lives an "integration illusion," which they define as "the public acclaim for the progress we have made, the importance of integration symbolism, the overt demonstrations of racial harmony, the rejection of blatant bigotry, the abstract support to neighborhood and school integration - all coupled with a continuing resistance to living, learning, playing and praying together."
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  • By the Color of Our Skin is not a policy book. It aims to describe America's black-white condition, not to point the way to racial harmony
  • Blacks and whites live, learn, work, pray, play, and entertain separately.
  • Desegregation, they say, "means the elimination of discriminatory laws and barriers." Integration, by contrast, is "governed by behavior and choice."
  • "America is desegregating," the authors write. "But we are simply not integrating."
  • One Nation, Indivisible, would point to my friends as examples of America's racial progress.
  • They cite statistics that show residential segregation is receding: 83 percent of blacks and 61 percent of whites have at least one member of the other race in their neighborhood, a huge increase from 30 years ago.
  • They give integration an almost impossibly strict definition. It's not enough for whites to interact with blacks with whom they share space, whether residential, professional, or personal interest. Whites must actively seek out and embrace blacks.
  • American culture doesn't exist apart from black American culture. Some of this integration may be virtual - corporate ads and university brochures, for example.
  • Yet due to centuries of separation, black Americans have developed a culture that is distinct from, even as it exerts a disproportionate influence on, America's white or mainstream culture.
  • mariakanarakis on 09 Dec 11
     
    This is a good site for my PLN "The Illusion of Skin Colour". Yellow: info Blue: examples Green: statistics Pink: word searches/ definitions
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By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race. - Review... - 0 views

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  • residentially segregated
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      mariakanarakis on 09 Dec 11
       
      Definition: Blacks and Whites don't live in the same areas (ex. neighborhoods). 
  • this is a result of choice, not legal compulsion.
  • "It's not a segregated town. It's just not an integrated town. There's a difference."
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  • Seven in 10 blacks attended schools that were at least 50 percent black in the 1996-97 school year, according to a June 1999 study
  • same study found that nearly four in 10 blacks attended schools at least 90 percent black. The typical white student attended a school that was 81 percent white.
  • Blacks and whites experience myriad pressures that keep them separate, a fact that becomes clear when you attempt to straddle the race line, talk to people who have, or simply read the newspaper.
  • The aversion to whites is so strong that, even in schools where few are present, black students who excel academically are ridiculed for "acting white." This is a serious problem.
  • If black women dare to date interracially, they may receive random threats of violence from black men who encounter them in public.
  • suffered verbal assaults on the streets of every city in which we've lived and some where we haven't. If black men date white women, they too can expect such attacks from blacks. There are strong pressures to stay within the group.
  • black cliques erect insuperable cultural barrier of tastes and behavior that are unintelligible to whites
  • blacks excommunicated for "acting white," whites who adopt black culture are likely to face resistance at home and in their former cultural community. They're labeled "wannabes" and "wiggers."
  • makes developing deep friendships hard
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  • I see America's rhetorical and "virtual" integration, as reflected on TV, as a sign of progress, even while I find the NAACP's threat to force it by lawsuit absurd.
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      mariakanarakis on 09 Dec 11
       
      NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
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      mariakanarakis on 15 Dec 11
       
      This website explains us how skin colour discrimination is viewed from a black person in our society. There is history to the reason that they can't see us (whites) as we are and vice virsa. Blacks really are the ones suffering the most which is something completely wrong and it is called inequality. 
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