Explain why the authors believe that athletic teams using Native American mascots is a race-based practice. Do you agree or disagree?

Week Fourteen Reading Questions

For each reading, you are to select ONE question to answer from EACH set of reading questions. Then you are to select the reading that you found the MOST interesting and explain how it relates to your own life.
Each question is worth 25 points (75 total) & selected reading is 25 points

Nicole Vadino

“Multicultural Training Intervention to Address American Indian Stereotypes,” Jesse A. Steinfeldt and Matthew Clint Steinfeldt

Essay and Discussion Questions:

Explain why the authors believe that athletic teams using Native American mascots is a race-based practice. Do you agree or disagree?

Why do you think American Indians find the name Fighting Sioux offensive, whereas the Irish are not offended by the name Fighting Irish?

Discuss why an increase in accurate information about Native Americans is necessary for the achievement of other goals, such as poverty reduction, educational advancements, and securing treaty rights.

If you were going to advocate for elimination of Native American mascots and team names, what form of advocacy would you use and why?

In what other settings might an exercise like the one in the article be fruitful?

“Growing Food and Justice: Dismantling Racism through Sustainable Food Systems,”

Alfonso Morales
Essay Questions and Discussion Questions:

Explain what Morales means when he says that market-driven relocation of grocery stores to the suburbs left behind the conditions for a public health disaster.

Explain how an overweight, obese person can suffer from malnutrition.

Discuss what Morales means by the terms food security and sustainable agriculture.

Discuss why food justice organizations, which are often led by people of color, see dismantling racism as part of food security.

Explain what Morales means by this statement: “By bringing the individual organizations together in a cohesive body, GFJI relates racial social critique to antiracist tools of sustainable agriculture in the service of creating a nationwide network dedicated to implementing food justice strategies.”

“The Intersectional Paradigm and Alternative Visions to Stopping Domestic Violence: What Poor Women, Women of Color, and Immigrant Women Are Teaching Us About Violence in the Family,” Natalie J. Sokoloff

Essay and Discussion Questions:

Give reasons why a battered woman might hesitate to leave her abuser or to call the police.

Discuss what it would be like if communities had the resources to explore effective interventions that keep decision-making power within the community.

Discuss what would happen if the government focused its efforts on basic needs and human dignity rather than on putting so much effort into criminal accountability?

Sokoloff argues that domestic violence is part of the larger societal systems of violence and inequality (e.g., racism, colonialism, patriarchy) and domestic violence must be attacked at its root causes: the socially structured systems of inequality—of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, immigrant status. Explain what she means by this statement. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons why or why not.