After reading Chapter 5, students should be able to:
apply the theoretical model developed in Chapter 2 to analyze the institutional discrimination against African Americans.
understand how "blackness" is constructed as the negative image of what the Anglo-Saxon core defines as American citizenship; and how "blackness" is the major marker of difference in American society.
understand how race is socially constructed and institutionalized and how it is sociologically significant.
explain the relationship between slavery and the development of capitalism.
trace the history of negative beliefs and stereotypes about African Americans from slavery to the present.
define and discuss significant institutional practices such as Jim Crow, the "one-drop" rule, and the "separate-but-equal doctrine."
discuss the significance of Supreme Court decisions such as Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education.
discuss the patterns of discrimination that created barriers to African American access to resource shares.
analyze theoretically and critique the construction of a "black urban underclass" for policy purposes.
discuss the various ways in which African Americans have protested and resisted the discrimination against them from slavery to the present, as well as discuss whether these various forms of resistance have been successful.
