Nancy Foner reading 1-Talking points

-Throughout the United States, blacks are “quintessentially racialized Americans, with their special position of disadvantage rooted in two hundred years of African slavery and a hundred years of state-sponsored discrimination”

-Given the extremely low levels of education and high poverty rates among foreign-born Cambodians, Laotians, and Hmong, these groups do not fit the “model minority” stereotype of Asians, which flourishes in cities like NY.

-The growing number, and significance, of Hispanics and Asians in the past few decades in NY, as elsewhere in the nation, have led to a move away from thinking about race as a matter of black and white.

-alternate side parking regulations were suspended on 34 legal and religious holidays in 2005, included the Asian Lunar New Year, Purim and Passover, and the feast of the assumption, the Muslim holiday of id-al-Adha, and the Hindu celebration of Diwaii.

-class and ethnicity tend to overlap in ways that cumulate advantages for euro-Americans, who set the standard to which others aspire.