Concepts
The idea that race is not biological but created by society.
What is the social construction of race?
A cultural movement blending Black history, identity, and speculative futures.
What is Afrofuturism?
The movement that fought racial segregation and discrimination in the United States during the 1950s–60s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
Media images that simplify and exaggerate groups in harmful ways.
What are stereotypes?
This activist’s work demonstrates how personal narrative can challenge police power and systemic racism in Canada.
Who is Desmond Cole?
A framework that examines how race and racism are embedded in laws, policies, and institutions.
What is Critical Race Theory?
When a dominant culture forces a minority group to adopt its ways
What is assimilation?
A global movement protesting police violence and systemic racism against Black people still happening today.
What is Black Lives Matter?
A racist caricature portraying Black women as loyal, happy domestic workers.
What is the Mammy stereotype?
The process in which a group adopts elements of another culture while maintaining its original identity.
What is Incorporation?
A concept describing how different aspects of identity overlap to shape lived experiences.
What is intersectionality?
This concept explains how displaced communities maintain identity and belonging across borders.
What is a diaspora?
A Black nationalist movement led by Marcus Garvey that promoted Black self-determination.
What is the Back-to-Africa Movement?
Give an example of cultural continuity
Indigenous communities continuing to practice traditional ceremonies despite modernization
When a dominant culture forces a minority group to adopt its ways
What is assimilation?
The practice of collecting personal information by police without reasonable suspicion.
What is carding
This system involves one nation extending power over another through political, economic, or military control, often leading to exploitation.
What is Imperialism?
A Canadian Black community in Nova Scotia that was forcibly relocated in the 1960s.
What is Africville?
Explain how globalization can contribute to cultural discontinuity.
Globalization exposes cultures to new ideas, technologies, and ways of life, which can sometimes replace or overshadow traditional practices
What is acculturation
When race is used consciously or unconsciously to justify surveillance or punishment.
What is racial profiling?
This perspective centers African history, culture, and experiences as the starting point for understanding the world, challenging Eurocentric narratives.
What is Afrocentrism?
A 1791–1804 revolution that resulted in the first Black republic.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Name one historical event that caused significant cultural discontinuity in a society.
The colonization of Canada disrupted Indigenous cultural traditions and languages.
This scholar used court cases to show how Black women were often excluded from discrimination protections because the law treated race and gender as separate issues.
Who is Kimberle Crenshaw?