Racism
Immigration
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Miscellaneous
100
A term used to describe a large group of people with a somewhat similar genetic history.
What is race?
100
The "lifestyle" that was dominating in the 1800s and 1900s.
What is European?
100
The belief and respect for cultural diversity.
What is pluralism?
100
Helped break the power held by European American Democrats in the South and allowed African Americans to gain some of the power.
What is Civil Rights Movement?
100
A group of people who were notorious for eliminating "Indians" and "keeping Mexicans in their place"
What is Texas Rangers?
200
Groups that are identified by distinctive patterns of family life, language, recreation, religion, and other customs that cause them to differentiate from others.
What are ethnic groups?
200
The first generation of groups who freely came to the United States.
What is an Immigrant?
200
The use of power and authority of a dominant group to enforce prejudice and oppression, and to prevent the subjugated group from gaining equal access to employment, quality housing, health care, and education.
What is institutional racism?
200
African Americans (Civil Rights Leaders) who called for the elimination of structural barriers that prohibited African Americans from full participation on the mainstream of American life.
What is Integrationists?
200
Name two things that you can do in your classroom for students of minority.
Learn and care about all of the cultures of your students, build positive relationships with your students, adopt the position that diverso cultures provide opportunities for learning, support high expectations for all, create lesson plans that encourage all students, include literature from different ethnic backgrounds, etc.
300
Negative feelings towards a group or a person based solely on race.
What is prejudice?
300
The treaty that ended the Mexican American War and ceded more than one-thirs of Mexico's territory to the U.S.
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
One's inferior behaviors when treating people of a different race or ethnic group
What is discrimination?
300
Under the leadership of Cesar Chavez and many others, this union helped organize Mexican, Mexican American, and Filipino agricultural workers.
What is United Farm Workers Union?
300
The court case that found many of California's schools that served mostly students of minority to be unsafe, deplorable, and unsanitary.
What is Williams v California?
400
Refers to "whites" enjoying more privileges than "non-whites" based solely on race.
What is white privilege?
400
The chinese were targets of..?
What are hate campaigns, terrorism, murder, and violence?
400
The belief that one's own culture (ethnic) ways is the most appropiate.
What is ethnocentrism?
400
The New Majority consists of mostly..?
What is African Americans, Latinos, Asian/Pacific Islanders, and Arab Americans?
400
The Supreme court case that provided the seperate but equal ruling.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
500
What are two white privileges?
Employment, not being followed in a store, etc.
500
The group of Vietnamese Immigrants who came first to the United States.
What is elite classes, persons employed by the U.S.?
500
What is a system of ideas? And what is the European American biased one called?
What is ideologies and eurocentrism?
500
Name a person from the Civil Rights Movement and what they did to promote change.
Answer may vary. (Martin Luther King Jr)
500
Name two ways that schools with a population of minority students and students of poverty differ from other schools?
These schools are underfunded, unsafe, and failing academically.
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