The US has often been referred to as a place where people are to assimilate into one homogeneous American culture.
What is melting pot?
100
Ideology claims that individuals should be able to help themselves out ("pull themselves up by their bootstraps") & the government does not need to involve itself in people's economic lives
What is rugged individualism?
100
Separating people into social groups according to race-based categories.
What is racial segregation?
100
Which country is currently a present-day colony (otherwise referred to as a common wealth) of the US?
What is Puerto Rico?
100
A concept used to describe the institutionalization of the Prison Industrial Complex, especially the mass incarceration of people of color, which functions as a systems of racial control.
What is the New Jim Crow?
200
The capacity, condition, or state of exerting power such that an individual is able to take action that is self-directed.
What is agency?
200
A Eurocentric view of U.S. history
What is the "Master Narrative" of American History?
200
An ideology, often associated with the American Dream, that purports that success and prosperity is determined by hard work, ability and effort.
What is meritocracy?
200
Between 1942 and 1949 this ethnic community was forced to relocate to internment camps in response to the events that surrounded WWII.
What is the Japanese Interment Camp?
200
Term used to describe how people view themselves in relation to others, and how they use their subjective experiences to categorize or classify the social self.
What is social identity?
300
The social organization of institutions that together shape relationships, actions and opportunities for individuals and/or groups.
What is structure?
300
A master category that functions as a fundamental concept that has shaped – and continues to shape – the structure of our institutions, whether these be political, legal, economic, social & cultural
What is race?
300
When oppressed people believe and act up the stereotypes that have been created by the dominant group about their oppressed group.
What is internalized oppression?
300
Black people brought to the Americas through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade were forced to endure this type of labor.
What is chattel slavery?
300
Describes how different types of discrimination -- racism, sexism, classism, etc -- interact to shape people's experiences of oppression.
What is intersectionality?
400
A socially constructed label used to define and categorize a group of people apart from one another on the basis of phenotype or physical characteristics (e.g, skin color, eye shape, hair texture).
What is race?
400
An interdisciplinary and comparative study of ethnic groups.
What is Ethnic Studies?
400
The concept refers to the exercising of force or influence over the will of another person, thereby minimizing the persons's agency.
What is power?
400
Residents of this region are considered American Nationals but not citizens.
What is American Samoa?
400
This concept is used to describe the actions and efforts that bring people together to work against systems of inequality toward social justice
What is solidarity?
500
Identification or affiliation with a particular social group with whom a person might share a similar heritage, cultural practices, traditions and/or values.
What is ethnicity?
500
The social and historical (sociohistorical) theory by which racial identities are created, lived out, transformed and racially organized.
What is Racial Formation theory?
500
Purports that racism is a system of interlocking structures based on the socially constructed category of racial superiority.
What is white supremacy?
500
In 1882 an exclusionary act was passed, which excluded this ethnic community from immigrating to the United States.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
A term used to refer to the unearned social privileges of white people.