Intersectionality
This person coined the term “intersectionality” to describe how race, gender, and other identities overlap and shape experiences of oppression.
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
This is the idea that success is based on individual effort and hard work, often used to justify inequality.
What is the American Dream or meritocracy?
This form of resistance includes organizing protests, walkouts, or movements to challenge oppression.
What is collective or organized resistance?
Angela Valenzuela coined this term to describe how schools devalue students' culture, language, and identity.
What is subtractive schooling?
The longest student strike in U.S. history began in this year, leading to the establishment of the first College of Ethnic Studies.
What is 1968?
What was a major consequence of racial capitalism for Black and Latinx workers?
It forced them into the lowest-paying and most dangerous jobs
This kind of feminism, criticized in Hood Feminism, often fails to consider the experiences of women of color, poor women, and queer women.
What is white feminism?
This is the name for the Mexican American youth who wore zoot suits and were labeled as un-American or dangerous by the media and authorities.
Who are the Pachucos?
Paulo Freire criticizes this traditional method of education, in which students are treated like empty vessels to be filled.
What is the banking model of education?
The 1968 Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) Strike took place on this university campus.
What is San Francisco State University?
What was one long-term effect of racial capitalism on nonwhite workers in the U.S.?
Economic instability and persistent wage inequality
What are the three types of Social Mobility?
1. Horizontal Mobility
2. Vertical Mobility
3. Intergenerational Mobility
Which of the following best describes "ethnocentrism" ?
What is the tendency to view one's own group as superior to others?
Freire advocates for this approach to education, where teachers and students learn from each other in dialogue.
What is problem-posing education?
CRP stands for this, a teaching model centered on students’ lived experiences and community knowledge.
What is Community Responsive Pedagogy?
Crenshaw used the concept of intersectionality originally to explain how this group’s unique experiences were often ignored by both antiracist and feminist movements.
Who are Black women?
This term refers to the movement of individuals or groups up or down the class hierarchy.
What is social mobility?
When individuals avoid dominant institutions or create their own cultural spaces and practices, it is called this form of resistance.
What is cultural resistance or self-segregation?
Freire believed that education should help students recognize these, which shape their lives and limit their opportunities.
What are structures of oppression or systems of power?
In 1968, students demanded an end to Eurocentric curricula and called for this kind of educational transformation.
What is culturally relevant or community-based education?
Intersectionality challenges this dominant narrative that identities like race and gender can be analyzed one at a time.
What is single-axis thinking?
I'll accept individualistic thinking.
This economic system, dominant in the U.S., is built on private ownership and the pursuit of profit, often leading to class divisions.
What is capitalism?
This subtle or non-confrontational form of resistance includes things like code-switching, silence, or "playing along" while undermining systems of power.
What is passive resistance or everyday resistance?
Valenzuela distinguishes between authentic caring and this more institutional, impersonal version of concern.
What is aesthetic caring?
Teachers practicing CRP must build this kind of relationship with students—not just academic, but deeply rooted in care and mutual respect.
What is an authentic or humanizing relationship?