Social Justice Terms
Oppression at the idea level. At the core of all oppressive systems.
What is ideological oppression.
A complete sentence that contains a subject and a predicate.
What is an independent clause?
Your position, stand, or point of view on an issue that many people disagree on.
A person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun
We use this to combine two independent clauses in a compound sentence.
What is a semicolon?
An example of internalized oppression.
What is...
Black on black crime
Depression/Anxiety
Self-hate/Self-doubt
An incomplete sentence that is dependent on another independent clause to make sense
What is a dependent clause?
Your ideas that support your claim
What is an argument?
McDonald's, Nike, and Rite of Passage are examples of what kind of nouns
Proper Nouns
Definitions, Synonyms, Antonyms, Examples, and General are all types of...
What is context clues?
An example of Institutional Oppression
What is school segregation?
What is police brutality?
What is mass incarceration of black men?
A sentence containing one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
The facts that you use to support your argument. Can be data, historical events, statistics, or other facts.
What is evidence?
Nouns that you cannot perceive with your five senses
What are abstract nouns?
The energy that is added to a word outside of it's denotation (dictionary definition)...
What is nuance?
How groups and individual identities result in combinations of discrimination and privlege.
What is intersectionality?
A sentence with two independent clauses combined with a semicolon or a semicolon and a conjunctive adverb.
The ideas of those who are in opposition to your point of view
What is counter-argument?
A word or group of words added to the beginning of the word to change the meaning of a word.
What is a prefix?
Power given from your charisma, self-confidence, self-respect, networks of support, and individual characteristics that we and others value.
What is personal power?
The four types of oppression
What is ideological, interpersonal, institutional, and internalized?
Ensuring all parts of a list in a sentence use the same structure- to make it sound better.
What is a parallelism?
Your response to the counterargument (why they are wrong and why you are right).
What is rebuttal?
A word or group of words added to the end of a base word to change the meaning.
What is a suffix?
What is marginalization?