Vocabulary
A social constructed theory based on ones biological feature.
What is race?
True or false: Racism is only located in the United States.
What is false?
Refers to the set of societal privileges from which white people benefit from, beyond those commonly experienced by people of color.
What is white privilege?
Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control.
What is oppression?
Characteristics that a social group shares/ has in common, for example: religion, cultural heritage, language/dialect.
What is ethnicity?
A group of people who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of discrimination
What is a minority group?
True or False: The higher unemployment rate for black Americans is largely due to lack of education.
False.
What is regardless of education levels received, unemployment among black Americans remains nearly twice as high as white Americans, even with the same level of education and degree?
Which state has the most segregated schools?
What is New York?
A set of beliefs that promotes the idea of supposed inferiority of a minority group.
What is racism?
Racial categories identified by the US Census Bureau are ________.
What are White, Black, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Alaska native, and Hispanic?
A type of privilege that whites are born with?
What are unearned privileges?
It is the negative treatment of a minority group that is built into the practice of society's social and political institutions. ( Eg. more difficult for African Americans to get approved for a mortgage)
What is Institutional/systemic racism?
This suffix can be added to describe a certain system of oppression that is based on a specific social identity including race, class, gender, sexuality, etc.
What is "ism"?
The group with the greatest power, privileges, and social status in a society
what is the "dominant group"?
Being able to see yourself as an individual
What is a white privilege?
How does intersectionality play a role in oppression? Give an example.
What is a female + immigrant +person of color.
The feeling of discomfort when a person holds two cognitions that do not psychologically fit together. To reduce dissonance, the person changes his/her attitudes, beliefs and behaviors or tries to justify them.
What is cognitive dissonance?
Assuming that a student of color is better at sports than at school is an example of ________.
What is unconscious racism?
A life long process of building relationships based on trust, consistency and accountability, supporting memebers of minority groups with their struggle. They are a crucial group in the work of social justice.
What is ally-ship?
When the dominant group exploits the minority group for economic advantages.
What is internal colonialism?
The only race that internalized dominance pertains to.
What is the white race?