Racism
What is Redlining?
What is the discriminatory practice of denying services to residents of certain neighborhoods based on race?
What is Minimum Wage?
What is the lowest hourly pay rate that employers are legally required to provide?
What is Mansplaining?
What is the act of a man explain explaining something to a woman and a condescending or patronizing way?
What was decided in the case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
What is segregation in schools is unconstitutional?
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
Who coined the term "intersectionality" to describe overlapping systems of oppression?
What are Microaggressions?
What are subtle, often unintentional comments or actions that reinforce stereotypes or discrimination?
What is a Wage Gap?
What is, the disparity in earnings between different socioeconomic groups?
What is, a large difference in earnings across the socioeconomic divide?
What is the Gender Pay Gap?
What is the average difference in earnings between men and women?
What is the Equal Pay Act?
What is the 1963 law aimed at abolishing wage disparities based on gender?
Give examples of privileges you hold.
What is being able-bodied?
What is being white?
What is being straight?
What is being financially stable?
etc...
Define the term Implicit Bias
What are unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect decisions and actions?
Describe a Food Desert
What are areas where access to affordable, nutritious food is limited?
What is the Glass Ceiling?
What is the inevitable barrier preventing women from reaching higher positions in the work place?
What is Executive Order 9066?
What directive led to the forced internment of Japanese Americans during World War II?
What is Marginalization?
What is the social process of excluding or ignoring certain groups based on uncontrollable factors or characteristics?
What is Colorism?
What is discrimination based on skin tone, often favoring lighter skin within the same racial or ethnic group?
What is Gentrification?
What is the process by which wealthier individuals move into urban areas, raising property values and displacing lower-income residents?
What is Emotional Labor?
What is the invisible, unpaid work involved in managing emotions and relationships, often expected of women?
What is The GI Bill Disparity?
What was the post-World War II policy that disproportionately benefited white veterans over Black veterans due to discriminatory housing and education policies?
What is Disability Justice?
What is the movement advocating for the rights of people with disabilities while recognizing the impact of intersecting identities?
Describe the 13th Amendment Loophole
What constitutional clause allows for forced labor as punishment for a crime, leading to mass incarceration disproportionately affecting Black Americans?
What is Cycle of Poverty?
What is the self-perpetuating system where poverty is passed down through generations due to structural barriers like lack of education and limited job opportunities?
Describe the Second Shift
What is the unpaid work done at home after working a traditional day job/9-5?
What was The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
What 1911 disaster exposed dangerous working conditions and led to major labor reforms in the U.S.?
Who is the Combahee River Collective?
What is the Black feminist group that highlighted the interconnectedness of race, gender, and class oppression in the 1970s?