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a social construct used to group people. It was constructed as a hierarchal human-grouping system, generating classifications to identify, distinguish and marginalize some groups across nations, regions and the world.
What is race?
was formed by Michael Omi and Howard Winant, and defines a race as something understood by the general population as a collection of social, economic, and political forces or ideas.
What is Racial Formation theory?
This academic field of study was started by student activists in the 1960s from social justice movements that aimed to empower people of color
What is Ethnic Studies?
How many citations minimum do you need?
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about the illegal sterilization practices in the Central California Women’s Facility and other female penitentiaries. Made over a period of seven years, the 82-minute movie documents the fight of one inmate (Kelli Dillon) and her lawyer against the Department of Corrections.
What is Belly of the Beast?
Unfair or unequal treatment of individuals or groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, religion, or nationality.
What is discrimination?
these theories relate to large-scale issues and large groups of people
What are macro-level theories?
The false belief that a minority group, particularly Asian Americans, is more successful than others due to inherent cultural traits, often used to downplay issues of racism.
What is the model minority myth?
What is 20%?
The documentary is about artificial intelligence and the biases that can be embedded into this technology.
What is coded bias?
a discriminatory practice in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities. This has been most prominent in the United States, and has mostly been directed against African-Americans.
What is redlining?
This theory operates by centering race in the examination of social phenomena and inequality.
What is critical race theory?
This 1946 class-action lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of separate schools for Mexican American students in Southern California.
What is Mendez v. Westminster School District?
The part that is mandatory on all projects
What is a VoiceOver?
explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans.
What is 13th?
The idea that racial identities and experiences are interconnected and defined in relation to other racial groups, not in isolation.
Ex.: The way Asian Americans were labeled the "model minority" during the Civil Rights Movement was used to contrast and undermine the struggles of Black Americans, influencing how both groups were treated.
What are Relational Formations of Race?
This theory highlights the overlap of oppressive systems, such as racism, classism, ableism, sexism, and xenophobia, to investigate the root causes of gender-based violence and other forms of oppression.
What is intersectionality?
Both the Black Panther Party's Ten-Point Program and Cesar Chavez's work with this organization emphasized community empowerment, economic justice, and the fight against systemic oppression.
What is the United Farm Workers (UFW)?
The likelihood of a student passing the class with higher than a C without doing the final project
What is 0% or unlikely?
reports from the frontlines of one of the most contentious battles in public education in recent memory, the fight over Mexican American studies programs in Arizona public schools. The film interweaves the stories of several students enrolled in the Mexican American Studies Program at Tucson High School with interviews with teachers, parents, school officials, and the lawmakers who wish to outlaw the classes.
What is Precious Knowledge?
A BELIEF IN IMPROVING THE GENETIC QUALITY OF A HUMAN POPULATION THROUGH SELECTIVE BREEDING OR STERILIZATION.
What is eugenics?
is a Nahuatl word for “a space between two bodies of water, the space between two worlds.” Physically it is a limited space, but according to Gloria Anzaldúa, It is also conceptually infinite; it is a “space where you are not this or that but where you are changing.” A physically confining yet theoretically expansive space . .
What is Nepantla theory?
This lawsuit successfully challenged the residential segregation of Mexican Americans in Orange County,
What is Doss vs. Bernal?
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What is 300 words?
This film examines anti-Black stereotypes that permeated popular culture from the antebellum period until the advent of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
What is Ethnic Notions?