Key Terms
Privilege
Racism that occurs between individuals (Ex: Telling someone speaking their native language to speak English) ex: lighter makeup shades are easier to obtain than darker ones
Passive Racism Vs Active Racism
Someone openly stating their desire to maintain racism; belief that targeted racial groups as inferior (Ex: KKK) VS Beliefs, actions, and attitudes that contribute to maintaining racism without being openly racist (Ex: Laughing at a racist joke)
The first public American figure that classified Black people as inherently inferior to whites?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Microaggressions
any answer that mentions: the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership.
Interpersonal Racism
Racism that occurs between individuals (Ex: Telling someone speaking their native language to speak English)
Is there a higher number of States that ban Critical Race Theory or those that have no restriction on it?
States that have no restriction on it.
Equity
the quality of being fair, unbiased, and just. involves providing that everyone has access to the resources, opportunities, power and responsibility they need to reach their full, healthy potential.
Internalized Racism
People of targeted racial groups enforcing/believing the stereotypes of their own racial group (Ex: Someone bleaching their skin)
Skin color most closely correlates with what according to the slides?
Geographic Latitude
Implicit Bias
Attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understandings, actions, and thoughts unconsciously
Structural Racism
A system in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequity (Ex: School to prison pipeline)
The rise of the idea of white supremacy was tied most directly to what?
The declaration of independence
Tokenism
Including a minority in a group for the purpose of being seen as diverse (Ex: A company hiring a few minorities to make their work environment seem diverse)
Institutional Racism
Racism in policies, procedures, operations of public/private institutions (Ex: Sentencing)
Members of a race can be identified by which of the following?
Blood group; skin color; ancestry; genes; none of the above; or all of the above.
none of the above.