U.S. History
A set of state laws, primarily in the South, that legalized racial segregation and oppression.
Jim Crow Laws
Unjust treatment toward a specific group.
Oppression
Different aspects of our identity come together to impact how we experience and are seen in the world.
Intersectionality
A 19-month-long protest involving reclaiming an abandoned federal prison for Indigenous Americans.
Occupation of Alcatraz
The territory and home Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show provided commentary on.
Puerto Rico
The 19th-century belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand its territory, from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Manifest Destiny
An oversimplified belief about a specific group.
Stereotype
An investigation into one's identity and how it fits into a community.
Autoethnography
This San Francisco neighborhood is known as "the Harlem West."
The Fillmore
This 2018 song critiques our country's continued systemic oppression toward African Americans in both lyrics and music video.
"This Is America"
A decades-long (1945–1991) rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union on global influence.
Cold War
An alternative story that challenges a prevailing, dominant perspective.
Counternarrative
Altering one's identity in order to adapt to new surroundings.
Assimilation
In 2020, California established a task force to study the lingering effects of slavery in order to pay this for African Americans.
Reparations
A stereotype—most commonly applied to Asian Americans—which suggests this group is inherently successful, highly educated, and financially wealthy.
Model minority myth
This two-day outbreak of white supremacist terrorism that occurred in the Greenwood District in Oklahoma, is considered one of the deadliest and most destructive incidents of racial violence in American history.
Tulsa race massacre
Subtle, discriminatory interactions that people of marginalized groups face in everyday life.
Microaggressions
Shared cultural characteristics (language, religion, food, etc) among people.
Ethnicity
This San Francisco born man won the 1898 Supreme Court victory that firmly established birthright citizenship.
Wong Kim Ark
A musical that explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The Sharks, who are recent migrants from Puerto Rico, and the Jets, who are white, vie for dominance of the neighborhood.
West Side Story
A mass deportation of people of Mexican descent from the United States between 1929 and 1936.
Mexican Repatriation Program
The practice of keeping marginalized groups from purchasing homes in certain neighborhoods.
Redlining
A particular outlook on something that can be shaped by your own experiences.
Bias
This Latina activist joined Filipino leader Larry Itliong in the Delano grape strike in 1965.
Dolores Huerta
The language spoken in the What If...? episode Kahhori Reshaped the World.
Mohawk