Dr. Sobredo: Terms/concepts
SCANTRON: #4521
Michael Brown & Ferguson, Missouri riots (August 2014)
White police force: National average vs. Ferguson
David Lyon civil rights movement photographer
Soweto, South Africa
Senator Paul Rand & militarization of US police force
Perspective of Ferguson PD from Iraqi veterans (US Army)
Cliven Bundy and Bunkerville, NV: April 2014
OECD & income inequality in USA and rest of the world
Statistics on Crime Rates in USA
Crime rates in Ferguson, MI; Stockton, CA; Sacramento, CA
3/4th (75%) of white Americans have no Non-white friends
Nassim N. Taleb, Black Swan theory
Dan Ariely, behavioral economist, “predictably irrational”
Adrienne Rich, “moment of psychic disequilibrium”
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs & Steel, Human migration
USA vs. World Population: racial/ethnic composition (2010)
“Minority is the majority” (California)
Largest human migration that occurs every year
Largest Islamic nations: Indonesia & Pakistan
Global population: China, India, and USA
Global inequality: the 1% and 85 richest (2014 Oxfam/Davos report)
China and USA: mirror image, extreme inequality
4 Periods of Immigration History (USA) from Prof. Jon Gjerde
Norwegian immigration & white racism: Pele the Conqueror
Asians in California: Luzones Indios (1587)
Manila Galleon trade & 1st global economy
Melting pot theory of race relations
Assimilation: “white Anglo-Saxon conformity”
Social Darwinism, pathological theory, race hierarchy
Eugenics, H. Spencer: “survival of the fittest”
Plato’s Republic: Philosopher Kings, warriors, masses
Pluralism (salad bowl) theory
1965 Immigration Reform Act: 3 Main Goals
Family reunification, recruit professionals, refugees
California Budget: K-12, Health/Human Services, Higher Ed, and Prisons
“World-class prisons and second-class universities” (Chancellor Reed)
Science & Categorizing “Race”
Stephen J. Gould, “The Geometer of Race”
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: “Caucasian,” “most beautiful,”
+Caucasians, Mongolian, Ethiopians, American, Malay
Carolus Linnaeus: 4 categories of race + “characteristics”
+Beginning of seeing race “characteristics” as “essential”
Prof. Rachel Casperi, “race” and anthropology
+Physical anthropology = study of “race”
Nicholas P. Canny: Irish conquest and Native American conquest
Stereotypes of Irish as a different “race”
Violence from the Outside: Context of Chinese immigration
China Today: largest economic boom, largest economy, 2nd largest GDP
Prof. Paul Krugman & IMF: China projected to surpass GDP of USA
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Student Protests in Hong Kong: “one country, two systems”
China = “scientific socialism”
Deng Xiaoping: “socialism with Chinese characters”
HK’s “chief executive” elected by the people of HK or not?
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British & Americans as drug dealers in China:
British East India Company & Trade deficit
+British drugs & source, Canton
+American drugs & source, Lintin Island
Opium War, Nemesis, 1842 Treaty of Nanking (5 terms)
Gunboat diplomacy, financial crisis, collapse of copper money
+Chinese migration to Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, etc.
Gam Saan Haak
Chinese gold miners: Placer mining, long tom, ~25%, 2/3rds
Prof. Edna Bonacich: Split-Labor Market & ethnic antagonism
Foreign Miner’s Tax 1852, 1790 Naturalization Act
People vs. Hall 1854
Wheat Market CRASHED in 1870s (Great Depression)
1877 San Francisco Riot against Chinese by “socialists” & unions
Denis Kearney, Workingmen’s Party, leader of anti-Chinese movement
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act: 1st immigration exclusion law BY RACE
+Excluded all Chinese labor from entering US
Folsom Prison: Chinese = 1st execution
Nevada: Chinese = 1st person executed by gas
MASS INCARCERATION of Japanese Americans in World War II
Hindus and Muslims and Sikhs in India
Martha Nussbaum, The Clash Within, Gujarat massacre of Muslims (2002)
Demographics: Hindus, Muslims
+India = majority Hindus, minority Muslims & Sikhs
+Pakistan = majority Muslims, minority Hindus and Sikhs
Muhammad and Islam
Profession of Faith: “There is no god but God….”
Muhammad vs. Jesus: Bedouins, nomadic, carpenter, and pacifism
Islam’s Five Pillars of Faith
+Belief, Worship, Fasting, Almsgiving/Zakat, Pilgrimage/Hadj