Conceptual Approach
Independence & Emancipation
Black Life Post-Emancipation
A New Origin Story
Housing Discrimination & Segregation
100

Shared outlooks and modes of behavior among individuals with similar place-based circumstances and shared social networks

Culture

100

What did the 13th Amendment do?

Abolished slavery except as a punishment for a crime and stated there is no middle ground between enslavement and citizenship (abolished second-class citizenship)

100

All-White enclave that banned Black people from entering after dark

Sundown Town

100

Developed to perpetuate slavery, generate profit, and maintain White supremacy; enforced through controlling Black women's sexuality and reproductive experiences

Race (social construct)

100

Two primary tools of wealth accumulation in the US

Education and Homeownership

200

Economy, Government, Education, Religion, Family, Healthcare, Policing

Social Institutions

200

Granted citizenship and full protections of the constitution to those born on US soil

14th Amendment

200

This term refers to the large numbers of Black people who moved to escape from the hostility and violence of the Jim Crow South to the perceived better opportunities in the North

The Great Migration 

200

Phrase used to demonstrate the presence of African people prior to 1776

"Before the Mayflower"

200

Two types of private practices that perpetuate residential segregation

White flight, redlining

300

this shared construction of reality can present barriers to social change 

Cultural Frame

300

Developed to allow slavery to persist but limit the power of southern states within government

Classified enslaved people as 3/5 of a human

Three-Fifths Compromise

300

Used by the mainstream media to develop racial ideology (Jason Aldean)

Imagery

300

"the offspring follows the belly"; this statute maintained the racial hierarchy, created a permanent labor supply, made slave status inheritable, and cast Black women's wombs as the producers of their children's subjugated condition

Partus Sequitir Ventrem (1662)

300

De Jure vs. Defacto Segregation

De Jure- state-sanctioned and developed via policy

De-facto- segregation as part of decisions made by individuals

400

Written from a Euro-centric perspective; disseminated in Western education systems and mass media; others marginalized communities

Master Narratives

400

“Every Negro and Mulatto child born within the State after the passing of the Act (1780) would be free upon reaching age twenty-eight”

Gradual Emancipation

400

These interconnected systems represent the foundations of policing and mass incarceration by establishing partial-slavery through coerced labor

Sharecropping and Convict Leasing

400

The fruit of power

History

400

How does Rothstein use the 13th amendment to further his argument about housing discrimination?

Perpetuates second-class citizenship as extension of slavery therefore housing discrimination and segregation are constitutional violation

500

Two Characteristics of Social Institutions

Enduring and Intergenerational

500

This declaration criminalized idleness and encouraged the freedmen to remain in their current "homes" and maintain "employment" (Juneteenth)

General Order No. 3

500

What is Candacy Taylor's primary intervention?

Racial terror and caste systems were also perpetuated in the North through sundown towns.

Jim Crow of the North

500

Makes enslavement central to the development of America as opposed to an abberation

Marking the beginning of U.S. history in 1619 instead of 1776

500

Rothstein's primary intervention

Laws intentionally used to segregate American society; moral and ethical obligation to remedy the harms

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