APSY1031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mass Incarceration, Gentrification, Multicultural Education

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY1031
• Professor: Francesca Longo

Document Summary

Race: predominantly a social construct, genetic make-up has little to do with race. Ethnicity: applied to social groups with shared history, identity, geographic location: eg. You may see yourself as caucasian, but ethnicity may be italian. Culture: define within your group and applied to your group: eg. Large italian sunday dinners: tied with ethnicity and race. When you portray poc as criminals, that takes away resources and puts them on uneven playing fields. When you develop policies that are more likely to see poc behind bars, that breaks people instead of helps them: dehumanizing effect for poc- easier to place blame on someone else, creates scapegoats. Core curriculum (in response to countries ahead in economics and tech: doesn"t address minority cultural diversity, falsely assumes that higher standards and core curriculum means students will perform highly. Minority culture vs mainstream american culture: how it interacts in school system critical to success, cultural frames of reference must be compatible.