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This assignment requires you to use sociological methods to analyze real-world data regarding colorblind racism. More than an exercise in theory and practice, this assignment asks you to reflect on your own beliefs and how to create social change. The relationship between theory and action creates an understanding of the mechanisms that create inequality. Understanding a social problem means we are better prepared to create social change capable of addressing the problem.

This assignment has three components intended to meet the following goals: to help students understand how sociologists collect, analyze and use data; to give students an opportunity to explore their own racial ideologies; and, finally, to understand the relationship between ideologies and social change.

The first part of this assignment uses Tatum?s idea of the self-interview, you will be interviewing yourself and three others and recording the results. The questions themselves are taken directly from Bonvilla-Silva?s (2006) survey in Racism without Racists (resources will be provided in the assignment prompt). You will begin by reading Chapter 2 from Racism without Racists, ?The Central Frames of Color-Blind Racism.? For this assignment, you will use all four frames of colorblind racism discussed in the chapter?cultural racism, abstract liberalism, naturalization, and minimization of racism to code your interview responses.

Link to Chapter 2, Racism Without Racist, The Central Frames of Color-Blind Racism http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/32178/1/2669.pdf

This part of the assignment is particularly important because it allows you to better understand how sociologists make claims with data. Although Bonilla-Silva goes out of his way to talk about his methodology, students in my classes are often incredulous about his claims. By giving students an opportunity to use data and showing students the relationship between data and theory, students better appreciate the claims that can be made from sociological data.

Part I: Interview yourself and three other people using the questions that follow. Save your typed-up interviews in a word document to submit with your final analysis paper.

QUESTIONS:
1. Most schools in the US are still highly segregated by race. What do you think of this? Follow up: What do you think should be done about this situation?

2. Should minority students be provided unique opportunities to be admitted into universities?

3. Do you think there is still racial inequality in the US even after the Civil Rights Movement?

Follow up: (if NO) What you do think are signs that things are now equal? (if YES) How do you explain this inequality?

Part II: Everyone is required to turn in a typed-up table. The table should not only include the frame you selected, but should also include a sample quote that exemplifies the frame as well as your reasoning for selecting this frame.

Interviewee

Sample Quote

If Colorblind Racism, which ideological frame(s)?

Why did you categorize the interview in this frame?

#1

#2

#3

#4

Part III: In a 2-3 page double-spaced paper, reflect on your own interview, the interviews you conducted, and the process of coding the interviews. Discuss your findings.

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