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SOC 330 Module Two Worksheet Timeline Name: Patricia Hernandez Course and section number: SOC 330 Soc of Race, Gender, Ethnicity To complete this worksheet, review the Module Two Worksheet Guidelines and Rubric document. 1. Select a minority group that you will use as the basis for this worksheet. Some minority groups you may consider include Hispanic immigrants living in the United States, Syrian refugees in Europe, and African American males living in the United States. You are strongly encouraged to select a minority group that you think you will advocate for in your final project position paper. Minority group: African American males living in the United States. 2. Consider the experience of members of this minority group by answering the following questions: How would you describe this minority group’s current position in the social structure? Consider elements such as prestige and presumed worth. African American males who work make thirteen percent less than compared to other races. Today there is twenty percent of African American men live in poverty, but another reason could be that some are just simply not working which contributes to the eleven percent based on what Black Male statistics show. There is also a percent of African American males that only completed high school and did not seek or could not get further education twenty-two percent of African American males graduated from college with a degree compared to thirty-four percent of other races. How does the dominant (majority) group relate to the minority group? In other words, how does the majority group relate to or exert power over the minority group? Check one option below and describe the reason for your selection:

 Majority Group Expression Reason for Your Selection (Write three to five sentences) Expect minority groups to assimilate Promote segregation of minority group Embrace pluralism X Exploit minorities via explicit discrimination Based on the article I read nineteen percent of black men serve longer sentences than Caucasian men that were charged with the same crime. The way African American men are being treated by the justice system is basically like a modern-day slavery based on the abuse they endure from the justice system and other races as well as how they are treated based on the stereotypes surrounding them. In prison, inmates are given jobs that will only benefit the government because they earn very little. I am a personal believer that history repeats itself and everything starts from a place where someone might do something like involuntary servitude and get away with doing it for so long that if one day it were to come out people may look at it like it wrong, but they would still allow it because somehow it helped society, and no one got hurt. But people do get hurt the people who they overwork, and their families get hurt, they are finding loopholes to the amendments. 3. Consider the ways in which your own perceptions about this minority group have been influenced by answering the following questions:

What are some of the commonly held views among your family and peers about this minority group? Before I was older, I had heard and seen my mom say some things about African American males. To be more specific she was not the type of person to downgrade someone but there have been times when she would say, well this happened to them because they do this. I feel like she was following the stereotypes people made about African American males and she did not understand what it actually meant. Now when it comes to my father, I heard a story that he told someone one day about how he built his house from the ground up and he placed a fence around his house. The house he built is in the Dominican Republic and when he told the story he was talking about how Haitian men kept walking across his yard and that bothered him, but Haitian men was not what he called them. I never believed my parents to be racist growing up because I did not see it but once I was old enough to understand I understood that they were not being racist they were just misinformed just like the rest of society in my opinion. What did you learn about this minority group in school or from your participation in organized religion? When I first came to the United States, I was very young. When I first arrived, I did not know any English so the people I hung around with were Hispanics. At that age, I still did not know who I was, and I was always trying to fit in. The people I hung around with were also not fans of African American men but for some reason, I was always willing to be friends with everyone no matter their race. Once I began going to high school and I was learning who I was, other people's opinions did not matter to me, so I kept to myself and had friends whose views were not the same as mine, but we were friends because we respected each other. My first friend in high school was an African American girl named Janiece to this day she is still my best friend. Throughout high school, my point of view changed which led to how I viewed my race. I mainly was friends with every other race other than my own I still meet some Hispanics that were nice and that I was friends with, but I outgrew what their views were. My first boyfriend was African American we were together for 4 months which is understandable we were still kids. My next three boyfriends were African American men. My high school sweetheart and I dated for five years my first real relationship. My next one we dated for a year. My current one we have been together for almost six years now. I have learned that no matter their race if you truly love someone you will see them for them no matter the color of their skin because of what I know and because of who I connect with I have only mainly dated African American men because in my opinion they're misjudged by everyone and they deserve love as well they deserve someone who loves them so for now my dating preferences I would African American men.

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How have you seen this minority group portrayed in the media? African American men are viewed differently from how they are viewed in real life depending on what is happening in the world. Today the media will portray this minority group as disadvantaged and victims. The media's way of portraying this minority group causes stereotypes and hatred towards them and it paints a picture for someone who knows nothing about this minority group and that’s when you have misinformed people believing in something that is not true for everyone. This divides socialization and creates problems with people. The media will draw the viewer's attention to a problem just to boost their ratings they will also exploit the issues of this minority group to manipulate viewers of different areas into believing fake news about this minority group and that's what creates a disadvantage for them the fake news, the stereotypes, and what society calls today creates Karen’s. Karens it's a person who discriminates against other people such as African American men and portrays them as no good-for-nothing men who all they do is create violence. A Karen will see a successful African American man driving a nice car or mowing someone's lawn for their business and think that they are criminals in their area, and they need to leave immediately, or the police will be called. The same situation happens when a successful African American man has a lawn cutting business and a Karen would come up to them and bother them asking them questions like what are you doing here? Who told you to do that? You need to leave right now. This is a misinformed person who believes that an African American man cannot be successful unless they are doing criminal activities. 4. Identify and describe two events in the last decade that you believe have had a significant impact on the experience of this minority group, and on general perceptions about this group, using the table below.

Name of Event Brief Description of Event, Including Date and Timeframe (Write three to five sentences) Explanation of how Event Affected Group’s Experience (Write three to five sentences) Explanation of how Event Affected General Perceptions of Group (Write three to five sentences) 1. Barack Obama the first African Amer- ican president in office. Barack Obama became the first African American president on January 20, 2009. He was the 44 th president of the United States. He was part of the democratic party and served two consecutive terms as president from January 2009 to January 2017. When Barack Obama decided to run for president it created problems at the voting polls. The African American minority group set history for this group by coming out to vote for Obama. Many of them believed that Obama would bring change and they felt inspired and hopeful by what this man could do for their group. When Obama became the first African American president it created a new image when it came to the potential this minority group has. This event showed how dignity, love, and excellence exist in the African American community. It also broke any thought of slavery and racism and created hope and motivation within the African American community. 2. The Black Lives Matter move- ment. In 2013 three women created the movement Black Lives Matter. The movement started after seventeen-year- old Trayvon Martin was killed by a man called George Zimmerman and was acquitted of all charges. Treyvon was walking home from the store in February 2012 unarmed. This movement later grew with the death of Michael Brown and George Floyd. This movement helped African American people the opportunity to speak out against violence. This movement went viral everywhere after the death of George Floyd. Ever since the movement was created African Americans have been protesting against the injustice of African American people and racism as well. Once this movement was created it showed the disadvantages, discrimination, and violence that goes on towards this minority group. Social media has also been a good tool for this movement. The creation of this movement captures the strength and power this group has when they stand together and defend one another. Others may see this as a negative effect for this group. Because of all the protesting, it may cause some trouble and businesses may be affected as a result. Some people have commented that if African American people will deal with

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References Black male statistics. BlackDemographics.com. (2024, January 21). http://blackdemographics.com/population/black-male-statistics/ News, A. (2017, November 17). Black men get longer prison sentences than white men for the same crime: Study. ABC News. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/black-men-sentenced-time-white-men- crime-study/story?id=51203491 Dimock, M. (2017, January 10). How America changed during Barack Obama’s presidency. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/01/10/how-america-changed-during- barack-obamas-presidency/ HUSL Library: A brief history of civil rights in the United States: The black lives matter movement. (2023). Retrieved from https://library.law.howard.edu/civilrightshistory/BLM

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