Shaped by the Past
Tuesday, March 4th�Regular class�
Thursday, March 6th
Watch video from home at 3:05pm.�Take Canvas Quiz right after class.��March 10-14th
Spring Break��Tuesday, March 18th �Exam Two
World in Conversation��BLOCK TWO��First emails going out today to�people with first names beginning with A - F
CLASS 14��Thursday – Feb 27��BEGIN - xxxx
SULA presents a transformative and immersive celebration of Black girlhood and community through the medium of portraiture….and epic representation of her coming-of-age journey.
Slave trade routes from Europe to the Americas
White slaves picking cotton -- 1853
White
Slaves
1858
Wealthy Black businessmen in NYC -- 1859
Middle Class
Black Family
1860
U.S. Civil War
“Protecting our heritage”
Reconstruction -- 1865 - 1890
Jim Crow Laws –
and forced segregation
1877 - 1964
Ku Klux Klan
Trigger warning
“Anyone can be successful in the United States because this is the land of freedom.”
47 percent of white families lived
below the poverty line
1964
Beginning of the Civil Rights
Movement
Trigger warning
“We’re all equal now. We all have equal chances to succeed.”
Median Family Wealth
U.S. Census Bureau, 2022
PAST Change in AVG Household Wealth�(everything people own – retirement accounts, homes, cars)
Pew Research Center
FUTURE Change in AVG Household Wealth�Retirement accounts, homes, cars, second homes –�if nothing changes in wealth patterns in next 30 years
Pew Research Center
Unemployment Rates by Race
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Life Expectancy
Center for Disease Control - 2021
Percent of White people who say they’ve been
“treated unfairly in everyday situations”
because they’re White
54%
Gallup, 2021
�Researchers sent out 5,000 resumes that were identical except for the name.�
Group One -- A
Group Two -- B
50% more responses
Male Incarceration Rates by Race�(Number of people in prison per 100,000 in that group in 2022)
Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2022
White people are 3.5 times more likely than Black people to be killed by the (mostly Black) police
U.S. Civil War
“Protecting our heritage”
CLASS 14��Thursday – Feb 27��END - xxxx
Yuli from Colombia asked on the
YouTube Live Stream chat:
“What makes it so hard to act
in the role of the “opposite”
in this experiment?”
Say Whaa asked on the
YouTube Live Stream chat:
“What made “Chattel Slavery” different than other forms of racism that existed throughout world history?”
Mike from Harrisburg, PA asked on the YouTube Live Stream chat:
“Do you think income and opportunity are related when discussing race and inequality? How much has that changed throughout American history?”