John Barrdear » Ethnography http://barrdear.com/john Tue, 22 May 2012 10:10:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Understanding race relations in America http://barrdear.com/john/2008/04/21/understanding-race-relations-in-america/ http://barrdear.com/john/2008/04/21/understanding-race-relations-in-america/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:50:33 +0000 John Barrdear http://barrdear.com/john/?p=163 Now, I’m just a white guy from Australia who’s only visited the US a few times, so there’s a strong element of “What the hell would I know?”[*], but still … I suspect that if you want a quick, visual introduction to race relations and the issues facing non-whites in America, you would not do too badly by only watching three things:

[*] The answer, of course, is “probably not very much,” especially if you subscribe solely to ethnographic or other immersive techniques of sociological fact-finding, but since my wife grew up as an Hispanic immigrant in the (28% African-American, 6% Hispanic) state of Georgia, I work on the assumption that even if I have no clue, she’ll yell at me if I say something entirely stupid.

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