Crime
A government-led initiative that aims to stop illegal drug use, distribution and trade by dramatically increasing prison sentences for both drug dealers and users.
What is the War on Drugs?
A person who has left their country and is seeking protection from persecution and serious human rights violations in another country, but their request has not yet been legally recognized.
What is an asylum seeker?
Another way of saying "unskilled workers" that redefines "them" as "us."
Example: "People whose work goes unappreciated, as it is often under the table."
Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
What is bias?
This landmark U.S. civil rights law prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990?
A law enforcement technique where police can detain a person if they have "reasonable suspicion" that the person is involved in criminal activity. Critics argue that the practice disproportionately targets people of color and is based on weak evidence.
What is stop-and-frisk?
The immigration policy that offers temporary protection from deportation and work authorization to eligible undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.
What is Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)?
These are nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes, which include economic stability, education access and quality, health care access and quality, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community context.
What are Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)?
Oversimplified, fixed ideas or generalizations about groups of people, usually based on characteristics like race, gender, age, or nationality.
What are stereotypes?
This philosophy sees a person's body as a "machine" to be fixed in order to participate fully in society.
What is the medical model of disability?
The discriminatory practice of law enforcement suspecting individuals of committing an offense based on their race, ethnicity, or national origin.
What is racial profiling?
The fear and/or hatred of people from other countries, stemming from a prejudice against those who are perceived as outsiders or "foreign."
What is xenophobia?
A mark of shame or disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person, involving negative and unfair beliefs, stereotypes, and attitudes.
What is stigma?
A way of speaking and writing that emphasizes the individual rather than their disability or condition.
What is person-first language?
This philosophy, put forth by members of the independent living movement, places systemic barriers, negative attitudes, and societal exclusion as the main factors in disabling people.
What is the social model of disability?
The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. The U.S. has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prison population.
What is mass incarceration?
The percentage of immigrants in the United States who are here legally.
What is 75%?
A journalistic approach to covering public health issues that helps readers feel more hopeful and like they can do something about a problem, instead of disengaging from more bad news.
What is solutions journalism?
A journalistic approach that centers the lived experiences and dignity of marginalized communities, actively opposing injustice by prioritizing firsthand perspectives over official narratives to represent grassroots struggles and structural issues.
What is solidarity journalism?
The display of a video's dialogue, speaker names, and sounds directly on the screen as part of the video itself. It first appeared on PBS in 1972.
What is "mean world syndrome" or "culture of fear"?
The first Trump administration's policy that separated approximately 2,000 children from their parents, as a way to deter illegal immigration to the U.S. by criminally prosecuting and incarcerating immigrant parents and taking their children away from them while they served their time.
What was the "zero-tolerance" policy?
Give 2 real-world examples of SDOH from every category.
Economic stability: Programs that address poverty, employment, food security, and housing stability, such as subsidized child care, guaranteed paid maternity/paternity leave, universal health care, food assistance, etc.
Neighborhood/Environment: Access to healthy foods, air and water quality, crime and violence, sidewalks, parks, and pools, etc.
Community: Positive social relationships and social and community support.
Health care: Access to timely and high-quality health care services, access to primary care, and health literacy.
Education: Early childhood development and intervention, educational opportunities, language and literacy services.
Erasing minorities in media by casting white actors in non-white roles or portraying the past in a way that is overly favorable to white people by glossing over or misrepresenting the contributions of people of color and the negative impacts of racism.
What is whitewashing?
What are 1) the "superhuman" defying overwhelming odds to live a normal life, 2) the disability as a never-ending burden and the person with the disability has to rely on friends, family, and society for support, 3) the disability is a sickness that needs to be fixed or cured, showing the person with the disability as a "broken human" that can contribute to society only once media professionals "fix" or "save" them, 4) people with disability, especially mental disability, are a threat to themselves, others, and society, often being cast as the "villain" that must be controlled or killed, 5) people with disabilities, especially cognitive disabilities, are "innocents" who inspire others to value life.