CHRIS: I think that it’s important to understand the different parts of the word inter racial – I don’t like Dictionary.com’s definition of race or racial. It’s a subjective point of view.
THERESA: In certain parts of the country schools are allowing students to choose more than one racial category on forms. For example, an interracial child can choose both categories. So it seems that they are furthering separating individuals.
Sue: I don’t think that further segregates you I think it opens up the options.
Theresa: Yeah but when we think about test scores how are they going to figure it all out?
JOE: Thinking about our interviews a lot of people said they choose not to be defined by race. I thought everyone would have different opinions.
THERESA: Would have the answers been the same if they were answered anonymously. I think they would have answered differently.
SUE: I think it’s interesting that many people have .7 friends of a different race.
MYRNA: Realistically I don’t think you can be of one race. Everyone is of some type of mixed race. I believe that the lives have been blended in together and there is no complete one person as one race.
CHRIS: I believe there is no genetic difference between any distinct race; another person came back with the concept of physical differences in features other than color.
BRIT: I think it was unbelievable when I saw my cousin who is black, her son is Korean and her other child is Chinese and her husband is white. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I ever saw.
QUESTION: WHY DO WE TEACH OUR CHILDREN THAT RACE IS NOT A TOPIC TO DISCUSS?
MYRNA: Most parents teach their children to be embarrassed about racial issues. Kids aren’t born racist.
QUESTION: WHAT IS THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN RACE AND CLASS (EITHER SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC) AS IT RELATES TO INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE? (REFER TO PAGE 22, LAST PARA.) IS THERE A SOCIAL COST BY MARRYING OUTSIDE OF ONE’S RACE? WHAT WOULD THAT BE AND WHY?
Sue: Regardless of economic class, even if you are the poorest white male/female, you are still considered socially higher than someone of another race.
SUE: Interracial marriage is a trade off.
SHERI: What about the interracial marriage between the white man and the Asian woman who is stereotypically docile, submissive and intelligent. We don’t normally think of Asians as lower class and Asians are attached to the good stereotypes; they are considered the model minority.
SUE: We also have to look at the population. (p.9)
SHERI: it’s almost more natural to see white and Asian together. They are equally classed.
CHRIS: It’s more equal. It’s a value. So even though Asian isn’t white, it’s more acceptable to be them than with Blacks.
RACHEL: The two (Asian and White) are seen as more equal.
QUESTION: HOW DO HISTORICAL EVENTS SUCH AS LEGISLATION AND WAR AFFECT THE TREND OF INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE?
WHY DOESN’T THE ESSAY DISCUSS INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES BETWEEN BLACKS AND SPANISH OR WHITE AND SPANISH? HOW WOULD FRYER’S ARGUMENT BE APPLIED TO THESE GROUPS?
SHERI: Marriage is a social contract. The trade off for some is just being married.
Sue: Interracial marriage disrupts the expectation of the social contract. The white community would think of white women marrying out of their race as a stepping down.
CHRIS: The value outweighs the cost for whites.
WRICE: The true cost is in your children. The primary goal is to prolong your legacy. If your legacy is less likely to look like you then you are not prolonging your legacy.
CHRIS: Looking at this economically, the social trade off is that beauty or intelligence can outweigh race.
WRICE: That’s what racism is: it’s when you project something negative on someone else to make you feel more comfortable about yourself.
THERESA: I agree with page 6. Mixed Race children have a choice in their behaviors. I believe that people will choose based on their environment.
SHERI: May feel as if they don’t belong to any group-as the article states.
CHRIS: If the parents of mixed race children decided to come together and “buck” the system, i.e. choosing a path that is not the norm or socially accepted, then wouldn’t the children of an interracial couple also have these same characteristics and “buck” the system? When you go with someone of another race, it is not something that is pleasurable when in social situations. People stare and there are certain stigmas that are placed on that relationship.
QUESTION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO “ACT BLACK” OR “ACT WHITE”? WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO “TALK BLACK” OR “TALK WHITE”?
CHRIS: If we go back to the mixed race child, consider that we talked about genomes and how these are characteristics that can show up in the offspring. Hence, if both parents take risks (step outside of the monoracial relationship) then the child will take risks.
MORE RISKS, MORE REWARDS-That’s Business 101. Fryer keeps bringing it back to opportunity costs.
SHERI: Something Fryer mentioned in the “Acting White” essay, I applied to the missed race essay. All the risks that they may take may be traditionally associated or stereotypically associated with acting black. So mixed race children may feel that need to buck the system and act black to show their blackness, especially if they are visually very fair in color.
CHRIS: Marginal, would probably mean “produces less than the amount
RACHEL’S QUESTION: IF RACISM IS LEARNED IN THE HOME ENVIRONMENT, CAN RACISM BE UNLEARNED?
Deprogramming is the word used to describe the brainwashing of people with a negative and socially detrimental ideology such as racism.
It is sad that little innocent children are indoctrinated with this idea of racism, not only by society, but by there parents. It becomes apart of there being, and taking that away from them strips them of thier identities, so unlearning racism is more like rebuilding one’s identity in a sense if you think about it.