Race and racism

Race and racism

Alexander Chapter 3

? According to Human Rights Watch’s 2000 report, in seven states African Americans constitute what percentage of drug offenders sent to prison?
? According to several government reports, including the National Household survey on Drug Abuse (2000), which racial group is more likely to possess and sell drugs?
? In 2006 one in every how many black men was behind bars; one in how many white men?
? What are the two stages by which a “colorblind” criminal justice system achieves racially discriminatory results such as ours?
? What is the estimate of the annual percentage of the U.S. public who violate drug laws? How many in real numbers in 2002 alone?
? In the 1995 Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education survey what percentage of respondents imagined a black drug user?
? Who is Warren McCleskey? What decision did his case establish?
? Who is Clyde Cahill? What eventually happened in his decision?
? Summarize the findings of the study conducted by the San Jose Mercury News.
? What is significant about the year 1860 and all-white juries?
? Because of felony convictions (mostly associated with drugs) what percentage of African American men cannot vote?
? What happened to Adolph Lyons? Amadou Diallo?

Sacco and Vanzetti

? What were the goals of the U.S. government’s “red scare”?
? Who were Sacco and Vanzetti: where did they come from? What work did they do?
? What was the charge against Sacco and Vanzetti?
? In what city and state did the alleged crime take place?
? On what four grounds was the appeal based?
? Their case became a cause celebre. Define this term. (Look it up.)
? Where did protests in their defense take place?
? Who was Felix Frankfurter and what role did he play in this case?
? What did the presiding judge say about Sacco’s guilt?
? What eventually happened to the defendants? How long from the time they were convicted?
? How did large cities respond to their execution?
? What eventually happened to Judge Thayer?
? H.G. Wells was the British author of such works as “The Time Machine,” and “The War of the Worlds.” What role did he play in this case?
? How many mourners showed up at their memorial?
? Who was Michael Dukakis? What role did he play in this case? What did he say (exact quote)?
? What did novelist Upton Sinclair conclude about the conviction?
? Where does their sculpture now sit? The mosaic mural of them?
San Patricios

? What have some historians called the invasion of Mexico by the U.S. military?
? Who were the San Patricios?
? For what two reasons did they begin fighting on the Mexican side?
? What happened to the San Patricios after the battle of Churubsco?
? Who was Captain John Riley?
? How did Taylor’s volunteer army behave in Mexico? What were their crimes?
? How does Ireland feel about the San Patricios?
? According to the author, what do the San Patricios and modern Mexican and Central American immigrants have in common?
? Who said, “Be not deceived by a nation that is at war with Mexico, for a friendlier and more hospitable people than the Mexicans there exists not on the face of the Earth.”