Week 14 — Readings & Resources

Introduction to Ethnic Studies Free sample edition

Your primary reading is Chapter 14 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 10 items (4 readings and 6 videos). Allow 40–52 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (16–20 min total)

① Overlap, not addition

Chapter 14, Section “Apply intersectionality: overlap across many lenses” · Session 1, Segment 1, “Intersectionality applied” · Remember: the meeting point of two categories has its own experience, which no one-category check can see.

Identity and Intersectionality Animation — WOSDEC — a short animation made with children, young people, and educators in Scotland: it notes that everyone carries several identities, such as religion, disability, and where we live, and defines intersectionality as how those identities overlap. Notice that its example says people can face both sexism and racism; test that line against the chapter's point that the overlap makes its own experience rather than two problems added together. (video, 1 min) (captions: automatic)
Mestiza Consciousness | Gloria Anzaldúa — Overthink Podcast — a podcast's explainer on the chapter of Anzaldúa's 1987 book that calls for a new mestiza consciousness: a person standing between several cultures, languages, and histories who holds them together instead of splitting into parts, which the narrator calls intersectional across culture, ethnicity, race, and gender. Listen for how many lenses one identity can carry at once, and notice that its last two minutes give critics' objections, as the course does for every framework. (video, 12 min) (captions: automatic)

② One ruling for every couple

Chapter 14, Section “Read Loving v. Virginia: a 1967 ruling for every couple across a racial line” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Loving v. Virginia” · Remember: the Court unanimously struck down the laws themselves, so the ruling reaches every couple across a racial line.

How Interracial Marriage Bans Ended: Loving v. Virginia — Mr. Beat — an educator's narrated case brief: the 1958 marriage in Washington, D.C., the arrest under Virginia's law, the suspended sentence that required the couple to leave the state, the appeals, and the unanimous 1967 decision. Notice that it describes Mildred Loving as a woman of both African American and Native American ancestry, a detail that cures the idea that the case was only about two groups. Its last minute adds marriage figures the course does not use. (video, 6 min) (captions: creator)
Almanac: When interracial marriage bans were struck down — CBS Sunday Morning — a short news almanac with archival interview clips: it says the Court unanimously struck down laws banning interracial marriage in 1967, that 16 states still had such laws at the time, and reads the Chief Justice's line about the freedom to marry. Use it while completing the Week-14 module overview. (video, 2 min) (captions: automatic)
Loving v. Virginia — Oyez — a case summary in three short parts: the facts, the question the Court answered, and its unanimous conclusion. Read the conclusion closely: the Court rejected the state's argument that the law was fair because it applied equally to both races, the same kind of rule that says the same thing to everyone and still lands where categories meet. (reading, 2–4 min)

③ Reading a count that changed

Chapter 14, Section “Read the census form: one or more races and the Multiracial count” · Session 1, Segment 3, “One or more races and the counts” · Remember: when a form changes, a count can change even if the people do not.

The Great American Identity Shift: How the Census Created a Multiracial Boom — New England 101 — a narrated explainer on why the Multiracial count jumped from about 9 million to about 34 million between 2010 and 2020: it walks through the new write-in questions and the coding that could count one person in more than one race, and reports researchers who call much of the jump a statistical illusion. This builds on Week 13's work with the federal categories. Its other figures are not ones the course keys. (video, 6 min) (captions: automatic)

④ Lines drawn inside a group, and across language

Chapter 14, Section “Name colorism: unequal treatment inside one group” · Session 2, Segment 4, “Colorism and language” · Remember: colorism draws its line inside one group, and a rule that names one thing can touch several categories at once.

What is colorism? — Science Museum of Minnesota — young people in a museum program describe colorism as discrimination by skin tone that often happens inside one ethnic group, and say it shows up in families, advertising, and music videos. These are the speakers' own views; compare them with the chapter's definition. (video, 1 min) (captions: automatic)
Race/Color Discrimination — U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — the federal agency's plain-language page on race and color at work: it defines color discrimination as unfavorable treatment because of skin color or complexion, says discrimination can occur when both people share the same race or color, and lists hair texture among the personal characteristics tied to race. Read the first two sections and skip the filing details. (reading, 2–4 min)
National Origin Discrimination — U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — the agency's page on national origin at work: it treats national origin as covering ethnicity and perceived ethnicity, lists remarks about a person's accent as possible harassment, and notes that the people involved may share the same national origin. It does not discuss break-room language rules, so read it for how language and ethnicity travel together, not for a verdict on any one rule. (reading, 4–8 min)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

2020 Census Illuminates Racial and Ethnic Composition of the Country — U.S. Census Bureau — the Census Bureau's own account of the 2020 race and ethnicity results: it gives the 62.1 million Hispanic or Latino count and the 33.8 million Multiracial count, explains that the change since 2010 came largely from better question design, processing, and coding, and asks readers to compare the two censuses with caution. Focus on the Multiracial and Hispanic or Latino passages; the other group figures are not ones the course keys. (reading, 4–8 min)

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