John Franklin
10-27-10
Ethnic Studies
Questions to consider pg 250-251

The question on page 250 asks if you name can help your place of application determine if you will or will not get the job.  Based on the reading and my opinion it can. In the reading it describes a ‘test’ that MIT conducted by placing four applications, two lower quality and two higher quality, And one of each with a black-sounding name to various companies. Overall the applicants with the white names were called back on average 50 percent more often than black sounding names.
On page 251 the questions to consider asks how a citron race comes to monopolize citron occupations or trades, how race, ethnicity, upward mobility, and control of local politics are linked to upward mobility. I think that a citron race can monopolize a carton occupation is by labeling them. For example if Americans say that the Mexicans are the ones in the orchards and farm lands, the next thing you know is that the Mexicans are the one working right where we said they would be. When I looked up what ‘upward mobility’ meant and I got “The capacity or facility for rising to a higher social or economic position” and based on this definition the same would be true for upward mobility, if we say that a citron race will never succeed we are labeling them with a self fulfilling prophecy and because of that they will not succeed unless the individual or family really pursues their aspiration and ignores what the others say what the will not accomplish.