Fluent Essays

1. In Chapter four titled Academy Training you learned about academies and the different approaches they take in training police recruits.  In Washington D.C., the Metropolitan Police Department teaches its recruits about Behavioral Science.  Question:  How important is this lesson, especially in todays environment which pits community versus the police?  Be specific when answering the question and give examples. at least be 8 sentences. 2. based on the reading authored by critical race scholar Alana Lentin, please explain the problem with replacing race with multiculturalism in debates on human differences/minority groups. And how, do you think, does multiculturalism tie in with racism in the United States?For those of you who want to further improve their understanding of the term multiculturalism beyond this week’s assigned reading, I suggest you skim through the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on multiculturalism. must be at least 8 sentences. ( articles will be provided) 3. Frank Serpico was a plain clothes NYPD officer who decided not to take part in the embedded corruption that was embedded in the NYPD.When bosses wouldnt listen, he and another cop, Sgt. David Durk, found their way to the New York Times.For Friday write 400 words on who Serpico is/was, mention the history of corruption and the impact. What is the current impact (if any).And, as this a class on the Media and Police, make reference to the significance the NY Times played (as well as the impact of the best selling book and blockbuster film). Police bosses know about such corruption for years (as did elected officials). How did the media - in this case the NY Times force a change in decades long practices?Cite information. Not your own opinion.2/26/16 10:49 AMMulticulturalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Page 1 of 11http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/#CosVieCul Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Multiculturalism First published Fri Sep 24, 2010 Multiculturalism is a body of thought in political philosophy about the proper way to respond to cultural and religious diversity. Mere toleration of group differences is said to fall short of treating members of minority groups as equal citizens; recognition and positive accommodation of group differences are required through “group-differentiated rights,” a term coined by Will Kymlicka (1995). Some group-differentiated rights are held by individual members of minority groups, as in the case of individuals who are granted exemptions from generally applicable laws in virtue of their religious beliefs or individuals who seek language accommodations in schools or in voting. Other group-differentiated rights are held by the group qua group rather by its members severally; such rights are properly called group rights, as in the case of indigenous groups and minority nations, who claim the right of self-determination. In the latter respect, multiculturalism is closely allied with nationalism. While multiculturalism has been used as an umbrella term to characterize the moral and political claims of a wide range of disadvantaged groups, including African Americans, women, gays and lesbians, and the disabled, most theorists of multiculturalism tend to focus their arguments on immigrants who are ethnic and religious minorities (e.g. Latinos in the U.S., Muslims in Western Europe), minority nations (e.g. Catalans, Basque, Welsh, Québécois), and indigenous peoples (e.g. Native peoples in North America, Maori in New Zealand). 1. The claims of multiculturalism 2. Justifications for multiculturalism 2.1 Communitarian 2.2 Liberal egalitarian 2.3 Postcolonial 3. Critique of multiculturalism 3.1 Cosmopolitan view of culture 3.2 Toleration requires indifference, not accommodation 3.3 Diversion from a “politics of redistribution” 3.4 Egalitarian objection 3.5 Problem of vulnerable “internal minorities” 4. Political backlash against multiculturalism Bibliography Related Entries Academic Tools Other Internet Resources 1. The claims of multiculturalism http://plato.stanford.edu/index.html http://plato.stanford.edu/index.html http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/#ClaMul http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/#JusForMul http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/#Com http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/#LibEga http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/#Pos http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/#CriMul http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/#CosVieCul http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/#TolReqIndNotAcc http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/#DivPolRed http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/#Replacing ‘race’, historicizing ‘culture’ in multiculturalism ALANA LENTIN ABSTRACT Lentin sets out to unravel the history of the discourse of culturalism in the post-Second World War period. Culture is now almost universally used to categorize distinct human groups and to refer to the differences between them. As the liberal acceptance of multiculturalism as a recipe for contemporary living affirms, the use of culture as a viable conceptualization of human difference often goes unchallenged in present-day scholarship. Lentin focuses on how the concept of ‘culture’ came to replace the language of ‘race’ in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Looking at the history of the ‘UNESCO tradition’ of anti-racism, she shows how racial categorizations were replaced by cultural distinctions as a means of explaining human difference. Whereas ‘race’ was seen as irrevocably invoking the superiority of some human groups over others, culture was assumed by anti-racist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic to imply a positive celebration of difference while allowing for the possibility for progress among groups once considered ‘primitive’. Lentin argues that such a shift, on which the western discourse of anti-racism is grounded, by merely replacing ‘race’ with ‘culture’, fails to expunge the ranking of humanity implied by theories of ‘race’. The essentialization of ‘cultures’ inherent within this cultural relativism is carried through into multicultural approaches to education, policymaking and activism that fail to include the dominant group in their schematization of contemporary social and political relations. Furthermore, the failure of culturalist approaches to counter racism effectively has been attributed to the purported identity politics of ‘minority groups’. Contrary to the notion that culture has come to pervade politics due to a bottom-up call from the marginalized for greater recognition of their cultural ‘authenticity’, Lentin shows how culturalism originated within the anti-racist elite and has resulted in the depoliticization of the anti-racism of racism’s actual targets. KEYWORDS anti-racism, culturalism, culture, interculturalism, multiculturalism, race, racism I n the West, the first years of the new millennium are being marked by a growing public preoccupation with the supposed incompatibility of diverse groups of people, at both a global and a local level. The ongoing ‘war on terror ’, launched by the United States and its allies in response to the attacks of 11 September 2001, is defined by a discourse that pits ‘civilizations’ against each other in a Manichaean struggle between ‘good’ and ‘evil’, Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 39, No. 4, 2005 ISSN 0031-322X print/ISSN 1461-7331 online/05/040379-18 # 2005 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/00313220500347832 ‘enlightened’ and ‘barbaric’. 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