Struggling with Identity
The Basics
Bell Hooks
100
The country that the participants expressed attachment to.
What is Israel?
100
Policies and programs which create opportunities for minorities.
What is affirmative action?
100
The system in which being straight and male is dominant above all other genders and sexualities
What is heteropatriarchy?
200
Being amongst other Jewish people makes the participants feel this.
What is a sense of community?
200
These three things  constitute ethnic groups and are shared amongst the people within them.
What is language, religion, and cultural practices?
200
How this is styled and worn is the object of policing within eurocentric beauty standards
What is hair?
300
This experience creates a sense of pressure to represent being a Jewish person accurately.
What is being a "token"?
300
This is experienced at a societal level by minority groups and disadvantages them
What is institutional discrimination?
300
A way black people assimilate into the dominant culture
What is straightening hair?
400
These two things are found to heavily influence personal identification as Jewish.
What is family and community?
400
An intangible concept that advantages white people in an observable way
What is privilege?
400
These markets very specific ideas about hair and beauty.
What is capitalism and eurocentric beauty standards?
500
The Jewish participants expressed feeling a struggle between practicing Jewishness and this.
What is the American Way of Life?
500
Race is a social construct and does not exist, but this makes it real in our society.
What is our belief that it is real?
500
Wearing natural hair has this power.
What is resist?
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