Rodriguez & Archer (2022)
Beauty standards intersect with what?
Gender and Class
What award is America Ferrera the first and only Latina woman to win?
In Wiltgren's (2023) study, school staff described their class as what?
Ideal
What is a Student Grievance Process?
A formal complaint against a professor in this case, filed against Professor Loonat because a student accused her of giving them a low grade because of their race (White).
The impact of beauty is a form of what in an academic setting?
Symbolic capital
What polite excuse did America say she experienced when being dismissed from an audition?
"We are not looking to fill this role diversely"
"She's too specifically ethnic"
"We already cast one Latina in this movie"
Microaggressions are ___ actions taken on a day-to-day basis that are hard to connect to racism
Indirect
What two factors does Dr. Loonat describes as reasons she knows that college campus are dangerous places for racism?
Dress and appearance, triggers racism on campus
For recreation, most students in the school participated in what?
Sports or Gym
America states that she experienced being asked to "be more Latina", in what ways did they want her to do this?
They wanted her to speak in broken english reinforcing a stereotype that immigrants must speak broken English
Polite exclusion are actions taken to what?
Purposefully exclude people from social interactions
According to Dr. Loonat's research faculty of colour suffer from ______?
Racial Battle Fatigue (causing people of colour to suffer from things such as, stress, mental, emotional or physical strain as a result of racism)
A person's _____ _____ and appearance influence social networks
Skin colour
On the flip side, America discusses doing what things to try and meet "ideal beauty standards"?
Staying out of the sun to lighten her skin tone
Straightening her curls
The exception to the colour-mute strategy is when educators acknowledge diversity asserting that it is a what?
"happy sign"
What can we do to lessen the damage of racial battle fatigue
We can use an equity lens to revise these policies and practices that contribute to racial battle fatigue