2.  Read chapter two, Stigmatization, from Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination, and answer the following questions:

Introduction and ?No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement.?

1. How was the term ?stigma? used in previous centuries, and how is it used now?
2. How many disabled persons are thought to be in the United States? 
3. Why is disability the one minority that anyone can join at any time?
4. How do the Old Testament and the New Testament see people with disabilities?
5. What was the attitude of Nazi Germany towards individuals with severe disabilities?? 
6. What movements particularly inspired the Nazi biomedical campaign?

?In Europe, Outcry is Loud Over a Sport Called Dwarf-Tossing.?

7. What causes dwarfism, and what can result from jarring or twisting? 

?Avoidance of the Handicapped: An Attributional Ambiguity Analysis.?

8. What was the basic message that came out of the first experiment? 
9. What does this data suggest happens to handicapped people? 

?Citing Intolerance, Obese People Take Steps to Press Cause.?

10.  What do studies show about fat students? chances of going to college and what happens to them in college?

?Race and the Schooling of Black Americans.?

11.  What percentage of black Americans at four year colleges drop out at some point and what is the comparable percent age of whites?
12. The author suggests that disadvantages contribute to black underachievement but that this is not a suitable explanation because blacks underachieve even when what conditions are in place.
13. What does the author suggests is the ?something else? at the root of black achievement problems? 
14. Describe disidentification with achievement. 
15. What does it mean to make schooling ?wise??

?The Stereotype Trap.?

15.  Where does the power of stereotypes lay, according to scientists? 

16. Do you have to believe in a negative stereotype to be hurt by it? Why or why not?