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."