AAS 205

Fall 2000

Chapter 6 – Race and Identity [cont.]

Voting Rights & API’s

REDISTRICTING & REAPPORTIONMENT

CAPAFR [1990/91] – California –

Thornburg test for Race-based redistricting

1.

2.

3.

Limits on API’s

Strategies of CAPAFR?

Impact on Nov. 2000 CA Assembly races?

George Nakano – Torrance area [South Bay]

Carol Liu – Pasadena

Wilma Chan – Alameda County area

INTERSECTIONS – beyond race and ethnicity

Multiple forms of subordination

Examples?

So. Cal. workers

Univ. of Hawaii – maivan lam

Ancheta’s suggested solutions to subordination of API’s?

AAS 205

Fall 2000

Chapter 7 – Law and Racial Hierarchy

How are API’s racialized?

Racial Hierarchy – what does it mean? Why is it problematic?

Examples from Chapter

Lowell HS – SF

1978 – 83

What did the ‘consent decree’ mandate in SF Schools?

1. 4/9

2. 45%/40%

Ho lawsuit 1994 challenge to consent decree

- Ancheta – problems with the suit?

New Demographics in US/CA/Bay Area/So. Cal.

- Refugee resettlement

- Secondary migration

Examples:

- Urban centers and API populations

- Long Beach

- Middle Class enclaves –

- Suburbs

Examples:

Between Black and White

‘NON-RECOGNITION’ – explain

ex. LAPD 1980

RACIAL STRATIFICATION – explain

o Model minority stereotype

o Mainstream media impact

o Out marriage/movement to suburbs/

disproportion In higher education

VOTING RIGHTS & Multiracial Jurisdictions

Is the AA vote monolithic? Why or why not?

NONRECOGNITION examples?

1965-75

Stockton – badillo case

Racial Minority voting blocs?

Examples?

NYC – 1991 Chinatown + Battery Park

CAPAFR in LA/Nor. Cal 1991

Next class:

p. 158 – Affirmative Action

Admissions Ceilings

Intergroup Conflicts and Racial Violence

SOLUTIONS:

Zero Sum Gain mentality vs. multiracial empowerment approach/framework

Negative Action – Lowell – Chinese American students

Vs. multiracial framework solutions?