Definitions
An exaggerated, oversimplified, or distorted belief that attributes characteristics to members of a particular group.
What is a stereotype?
Words that connect to social identity.
What are social norms, socialization, social constructs, culture, dominant groups, or minority groups?
Institutional Classism
Colleges giving preference to children of alumni, thus making it harder for first-generation college applicants to get in is an example of this.
Name one reason the US government passed Executive Order 9066 (Japanese Incarceration).
What is military necessity?
Believed they were potential traitors.
This keyword describes how we come to know, believe in, and act out our identities in society.
What is socialization?
Making a decision about a person or a group of people without sufficient knowledge.
What is prejudice?
Words that connect to Systems of Oppression.
What is racism, sexism, classism, power, privilege, mainstream society, institutional, individual, cultural, or internalized?
Cultural Sexism
People of Color are in a blockbuster movie, but they are only cast as the villains. Show depicts female scientist as poorly dressed.
This war, treaty, and subsequent border impacts how Latinx people are racialized in the United States.
Mexican-American war and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848). Formed the present-day Mexican-American border.
Not hiring women for jobs in STEM fields is an example of what keyword.
What is discrimination?
Brief, everyday comments that send negative messages to certain individuals due to their (perceived) identity or identities
What is a microaggression?
Words that connect to Race.
What is social construct, racism, racialized, racial prejudice, racialization, racial scripts, White supremacy, or social identity?
Racialization
What happens when you are seen as having a race (ie not white). Asian Americans and other immigrants of color are seen as foreigner or Other in America. Examples include Michelle Kwan (American athlete who was considered non-American due to looks), being asked "where are you from," and more.
This was the first major immigration legislation aimed at a group identified by race.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)?
This clip is an example of what word?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69MO7yU0d70&ab_channel=WaltDisneyStudios
Afrofuturism
Reimagining our world with Black at the center.
Unfair treatment of people/groups based on social markers like race, gender, class, etc.
What is discrimination?
Words that connect to Empire.
What is Imperialism, Colonialism, Settler Colonialism, Genocide, Indigenous Groups, Land / Property, or Manifest Destiny.
Diaspora
What is the dispersion of people who share a cultural background from their homeland? Examples include Jewish people (expulsion from Israel), African Americans (slavery), Hawaiians (tourism industry), and more.
This court case ruled that the U.S. government could not continue to detain a citizen who was loyal to the United States.
What is Ex Parte Endo (1944)?
These keywords describe how people get indoctrinated into their belief-sets.
What is dominant social messaging, socialization, and social norms?
The process whereby people in the target group make oppression personal by coming to believe that the dominant narrative about them is true.
What is internalized oppression?
Words that connect to Historical Trauma.
What is Intergenerational Trauma, Diaspora, Diasporic Community, Forced Migration, Colonialism, Resistance, or Decolonization.
Colonialism
What is United States ownership and involvement in: Hawaii, The Philippines, U.S. Territory of Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, or The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands?
This event resulted in the American colonies making formal social distinctions among its people based on appearance, place of origin, and heredity; created a hierarchy based on race.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)?
Coalitions of poor white people, free and enslaved Africans, rebelled against the rising planter class because they wanted to acquire land reserved for Virginia’s indigenous people.
This process describes the racialization of native peoples as subhuman.
What is colonialism?
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