"The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity"
Race and ethnicity are not biological rather, they would be considered this.
What are historically developed social categories or social constructs ?
This form of resistance is described as marginalized groups maintaining language, traditions, and identity, to quietly challenge systems of racial oppression.
This theory sees racial inequality as the result of social groups competing for power, wealth, and resources, often leading to disparities and tension within these social groups that are more often than not, marginalized.
What is Conflict Theory?
This term describes how race, class, gender, sexuality, and nationality combine to create unique experiences of privilege and oppression.
What is intersectionality?
This racial category comes with a position of inherent privilege and is often invisible to those who benefit from it, especially in The United States.
What is whiteness?
"What are social institutions?"
Landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education (which declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional) is an example of these strategies of resistance.
What are legal strategies of resistance?
According to this theory, race and racial categories help to maintain social stability by assigning roles and creating order in society, but this perspective has been criticized for justifying inequality.
Hint: Everything has a purpose or role and everything needs to abide by these purposes or roles in order for society to _____.
What is FUNCTIONalism?
This scholar popularized the term 'intersectionality' in a 1989 paper examining how Black women were marginalized in the legal system.
Who is Kimberle Crenshaw?
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This infamous institution in 15th-century Spain enforced religious conformity and promoted the idea of ________ establishing one of the earliest ideas of race based discrimination.
What is the Spanish Inquisition and the concept of "cleanliness of blood"?
Double Jeopardy: This movement was a political and social movement advocating for Black self-determination, and community empowerment that diverged from the Civil Rights Movement, as it sought more immediate and radical action to address racial inequalities.
What is the Black Power Movement?
This theory focuses on everyday interactions between individuals, examining how race is constructed and understood through social interactions and symbols.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
Published in 1990, this book by Patricia Hill Collins expanded the concept of intersectionality and introduced the idea of the 'matrix of domination.'
What is Black Feminist Thought
Stereotypes in American media are perpetuated by this.
What is the "white gaze"?
The U.S. Census would use physical characteristics to determine this part of an individuals identity as opposed to culture, language, or national origin which would be used describe an individuals ethnicity.
What is Race?
From Nat Turner's Rebellion to the Haitian Revolution, these acts of collective uprising directly confronted the brutality of enslavement.
What are the Slave Rebellions?
Double Jeopardy: This sociological theory emphasizes the importance of economic and political power in shaping racial inequality, arguing that racism serves to benefit dominant groups while exploiting marginalized communities.
What is Conflict Theory?
A wealthy, white, heterosexual man who is a citizen of the Untied States would experience the world from this which can be found in the intersectionality tab of Canvas.
Hint: Its under the subsection "Privileges and Forms of Oppression"
What is "the apex of privilege"?
This form of racism often occurs within marginalized racial groups and is characterized by individuals from these groups reinforcing systemic oppression, usually not by their own volition, but because of social structures and other third party, societal influences.
"What is internalized racism?"
"Race as dynamic, shaped by law, culture, politics", are the phrases used in the final exam study guide to characterize this theory.
"What is Racial Formation Theory?"
This movement used nonviolent protests and legal challenges to dismantle racial segregation and secure voting rights for African Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
These ways of thinking (Conflict Theory, Functionalism, and Symbolic Interactionism) are used to examine patterns of racial inequality in society.
What are theoretical lenses or social theories?
Coined by Kimberle Crenshaw, this concept helps explain why anti-discrimination laws often fail to address the needs of those who experience overlapping forms of oppression, such as Black women.
Hint: Think about how laws or systems might disregard the way identities intersect and interact and create more instances of discrimination and inequalities.
What is systemic discrimination?
This government initiative that was seen in the 1970s-1980s, declared drug uses as a major public threat but disproportionately targeting communities of color which reinforced racial inequalities and ultimately led to mass incarceration.
What is the War on Drugs?