Category 1
What is Racism?
Power + Prejudice
Ethnicity is a shared cultural heritage
True.
What made it illegal to learn and write?
Anti-literacy laws
What is a health disparity?
Differences in the rates of disease and death
What does PGM stand for?
People of the Global Majority
The concept of race was created over 200 years ago and has no true biological basis.
True.
Is race really thing, and if not why?
What are some strategies to work towards tackling racism?
Listen to people of color, Don't debate oppression when someone names it, learn about racial identities in a historical context
What are 2 impacts of segregation?
emotional/financial stress, lower property values, lower tax base, fewer and poorer public service
Racialization does not have a significant impact on social health, education, economic, legal, and political relevance and effects.
False! It most definitely has an impact.
What are race and ethnicity?
A socially meaningful category of people who share physical characteristics that are obvious (i.e. skin color, bone structure, hair, and eye color) as a result of genetic ancestry
Many whites view racism solely as ______ _____ & _____ ________.
Hate Crimes & Legal Discrimination
What is phrenology?
A pseudo-science to rank intelligence
Anti literacy laws made it illegal for black people to learn and write for people to teach them.
True
Minorities who apply for mortgages are how many times more likely to get rejected than whites?
3 times
What laws were created to allow incarceration of POCs?
Black Codes
Who separated people into 5 races according to physical characteristics and pseudo-science to rank intelligence?
White Americans are more likely than Black, Asian, and Hispanic Americans to acknowledge that institutional racism exists.
False. (White Americans are LESS likely to acknowledge institutional racism compared to other racial groups)
How is education prohibited for black people?
Segregated schools under Jim Crow laws, Native Americans forced into boarding schools, Anti-literacy laws
What are some unjust inhibitive housing laws that affect BIPOCs today?
Land seizure, higher mortgage rejection rates for minorities, redlining's lasting effects of property values, NIMBY