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Chapter Ten

This assignment is worth an additional 20 points since it is longer than the others. Please enumerate your answers as they are below, so that I do not miss any of your work. Part one:

1. Why is it good practice to avoid use of the term “minority” except in certain cases. Please explain the authors viewpoint.

2. Why does being colorblind not an effective way of addressing race and ethnicity in the workplace.

3. What is the pipeline problem and how does it impact diverse representation at organizations?

4. What is the great divide----have you seen this in effect such as where an organization says it is diverse but all the diverse people are in the lower levels with no power or

authority? Answer the question about the hiring of Thurgood Marshall found after

reading pages 219 and 220 support your answer.

5. What are Jim Crow Laws and does this type of segregation still exist today in neighborhoods, schools etc.

Part two:

After reading pages 208-209, “The Back-handed compliment….” Summarize in a paragraph the

viewpoint of this discussion

Part three:

Is what we don’t know can hurt us and perpetuate stereotypes that lead to discrimination, an

example of the following:

(1) Go to White males and diversity and tell why this viewpoint is important for workplace

inclusion and race relations.

(2) Go Because I'm Latino, I can't have money review this youtube clip.

A. State whether only kids feel this way when addressed about their racial backgrounds.

B. Explain twp of the kid’s stories that resonated with you and state why.

(3) What is the “real” Thanksgiving Story? Using the Internet, look up the following

address: http://www.manataka.org/page269.html or go to www.google.com and search for

“The Real Thanksgiving Story.” Once at the website Teaching About Thanksgiving read

“Introduction for Teachers” and “The Plymouth Thanksgiving story.”

A. Now complete the following: Explain five things that you learned from this story.

B. What does knowing this have to do with diversity and treatment of Native Americans

in this country?

(4) Read the “Cultural knowledge about Blacks/African Americans below. Now compare

this information to the following picture:

The picture that has been shown as it relates to people in the continent of Africa or go to google

and choose “images” not “web” then type: pictures starving children in Africa (as though out of

54 countries in the continent all of them have starving children)

Now answer the following two questions:

A. By only seeing the picture above as it relates to Africans, what association would people

make about those who are African American or come from the continent of Africa?

B. What does knowing the “real” facts about Africa say about the skills and intellect of

many of the ancestors of Blacks in America? How does this relate to the stereotypes that

some people hold about Blacks?

Some Cultural knowledge about Blacks/African Americans taken from

(Griswold, S. (2015). Managing Workplace Diversity)

We will begin this discussion with the experience of the first Blacks who arrived in

America. Just like other immigrants, these free Blacks saw opportunity.

One example, of a free African looking for opportunities in America is Juan las

Canerias, who sailed with Columbus on the first voyage. He was like many Africans in

Europe at the time, in that they had achieved freedom and had spent several years in

Spain as domestics, soldiers, clerks, and artisans.4 According to Madeleine Burnside

in Marooned: Africans in the Americas 1500 - 17505:

Juan Garrido, another free man of African descent, joined Ponce de Leon’s expeditions

to the Caribbean and subsequently traveled to Mexico with Cortez. His experience

appears to have been entirely similar to that of any other Spaniard and, ironically

to 20th century eyes, the wealth produced by these expeditions came from the sale

of Native American slaves. Garrido was accustomed to this, as slavery was a way life

for the conquered in Spain. For centuries, the Moors had been enslaved by Spanish

Christians and Christians by Moors, and sub Saharans had been brought to the slave

markets of Italy and Spain, along with the Slavs and other eastern Europeans.

Europeans enslaved each other as easily as Africans have ever been accused of doing.

According to a new study, Europeans were even enslaved by White Africans (North

Africa). This study indicates that a million or more European Christians were enslaved

by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 – a far greater number than had

ever been estimated before.6

Why enslave others? Slavery was profitable. Free labor allows those in power to gain

wealth at the expense of others. Slavery also existed as a means to utilize criminals.

Those who were convicted of crimes instead of being punished by death or other

means, they paid their debt to society by enslavement.

But enslaving individuals who would otherwise want their freedom meant isolation.

Slaves who were “not” isolated could run away. Therefore it became

common practice to look outside of your own country for slaves. This is one reason

that many of the Native Americans did not end up as slaves in America but were

instead killed or sent to other countries as slaves. Native Americans knew the land and

therefore would not be easy to isolate. For slavery in America to flourish and exist

with ease, the slaves needed to come from outside the land-- come to an unknown

territory.

A prime area for slaves was on the west coast of Africa called the Sudan. This area

was ruled by three major empires Ghana (790-1240), Mali (1240-1600), and Songhai

(670-1591).7 Other smaller nations were also canvassed by slavers along the west

coast; they included among them: Benin, Dahomey, and Ashanti. Africans were ideal

for this isolated placement in the Americas, as they would recognize immediately that

they had no hope of getting home. But this was not the only reason the people of

Africa were enslaved. The peoples inhabiting those African nations were known for

their skills in agriculture, farming, and mining.

The Africans of Ghana were well known for smelting iron ore, and the Benins were

famous for their cast bronze art works.8 African tribal wars produced captives which

became a bartering resource in the European slave market. Other slaves were

kidnapped by hunters. The main sources of barter used by the Europeans to secure

African slaves were glass beads, whiskey and guns.9

Slavery as a form of free labor was on the rise as products like sugar, coffee, cotton,

and tobacco became in great need. Many countries like Spain, France, the Dutch, and

English wanted their colonial plantation system to work to produce these good and the

most profitable means of doing this was by cheap or free labor through slaves. The

slave trade was so profitable that, by 1672, the Royal African Company chartered by

Charles II of England superseded the other traders and became the richest shipper of

human slaves to the mainland of the Americas and the slaves were so valuable to the

open market - they were eventually called "Black Gold."10