Sarah-Elizabeth Herman

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

"it is important to identify different experiences of white racial identity as a means of creating social and political interventions that appeal to the circumstances and understanding of different groups of whites." (p. 436) #NQSoc221

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

"negative stereotypes of poor and working-class whites who live among blacks has everything to do with the overarching racist paradigm governing urban America." (p. 421) #NQSoc221

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

"The meanings attached to racial identity are difficult for many people to articulate, but the way racial identities play out in everyday interactions between people of different races can have powerful implications for race relations." (p. 417) #NQSoc221

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

"The impact of racial cues in news programs and campaign advertising is especially influential in shaping white Americans' views about race for the simple reason that most whites have little personal contact with minorities." (p. 270) #NQSoc221

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

"The regular coverage of crime by television news coupled with the dominance of episodic framing constitutes a strong implicit signal that members of minority groups are prone to engage in violent crime." (p. 262) #NQSoc221

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

"There is ample evidence of media agenda-setting with respect to crime; over the past two decades Americans have regularly identified crime as among the three most important problems facing the country." (p. 260) #NQSoc221

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

@gracebrenner7 The US is only continuing its cycle of unobtainable citizenship in today's society with opposition of DACA and deportation of current immigrants

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

@Mel_soc221 I definitely didn't think of those characteristics when I heard 'race' prior to this class

[Karissa Nance @karrnicole_soc]

#NQSOC221 https://t.co/pwQJ7uNUz8

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

@johnjackjake We perpetuate the stereotype of 'Asians as smart in math and sciences' but neglect that there is so much more to them

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

"The experience of having been considered an 'enemy race' continued to shape their lives, whether they had gone to Japan, protested the unjustness of internment, or just tried to resume a normal life in the postwar United States." #NQSoc221

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

"Curiously, authorities sw the term 'Caucasians' as preferable to impersonal administrative titles and believed that it masked their power over the incarcerated population." #NQSoc221

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

"Federal authorities.. required that all persons with even one drop of 'Japanese blood' in the western region of the United States submit themselves to what was euphemistically called 'evacuation.'" #NQSoc221

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

"Though the crude, extreme racism of the yellow peril literature has faded in time, many of the underlying prejudices continue as subcurrent in US culture." (p. 222) #NQSoc221

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

"On the one hand, Asians were seen as racial inferiors who would somehow weaken the moral or social fabric of the country; on the other, there was widespread fear that Asians were the real threats to white hegemony." #NQSoc221

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

"The persistence of the idea of "race" has consistently and stubbornly challenged the cherished notion of the universality of the promise of the United States." (p. 218) #NQSoc221

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

@gracebrenner7 I really like this quote! It’s something I hadn’t thought about before the reading but it does make you think deeper

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

@karrnicole_soc This was true for me as well! I had never thought deeper into my ethnic background until this class

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

"not everyone who is associated with a racial or ethnic group is going to be influenced by the ideas and practices of the group in the same way." (p. 381) #NQSoc221

[Sarah-Elizabeth Herman @seherman23]

"Categorizing people as an ethnicity, on the other hand, focuses attention on differences in meanings, values and ways of living (social practices) that are often regarded as equally viable." (p. 371) #NQSoc221