The Reality Today
This ethnic group is more likely to be killed by police brutality
What is Black Americans?
This process was used to displace indigenous people for the resources that the land provided to sustain slavery
What is Settler Colonialism?
This type of segregation in the South was facilitated through laws marginalizing Black Americans.
What is Jim Crow Segregation?
This legislation invested $1.2 billion in state prison construction. It also incentivized the states to ensure that people convicted of a crime will serve 85% of the sentence.
What is the Federal Crime Act?
These demographic groups are disproportionately affected by homelessness
What is People of color, LGTBQ+, etc?
Black people are 2.2x more likely and Latinx are 1.1x more likely than a white person to get arrested for this type of offense.
What is : non-violent offenses
In efforts to control the slaves and prevent them from escaping, plantation owners created this
What is Slave Patrol?
The White Man’s Burden narrative was created to support policies for this
What is American Imperialism?
this narrative pronounced by Hillary Clinton portraits Black youth as violent, salvage criminals
What is “super predator”?
The narrative of racism being rooted in hate is false because
What is because the system is racist?
Only 24% of homicides of white victims go unsolved. However, over 40% of these two types of victims go unsolved.
What is: Black and Latinx victims?
This ideology favored the interests of native-born citizens over immigrants by
What is nativism?
A type of zoning that contributed to segregation by preventing the development of apartments in certain neighborhoods because working class immigrants and people of color were associated with apartments. Also a tool used to make policing people of color easier.
What is Implicit Racial Zoning?
In 1973, Richard Nixon consolidated anti-drug forces into this federal agency, heavily funding it by shifting its money away from social service programs.
What is the Drug Enforcement Administration? Or What is “DEA”?
This was created to maintain control over slaves then adapted by the government to implicitly target people of color
What is policing?
Group of people being disproportionally harassed by police because of their sexual orientation.
What is: LGBTQIA+ community
During this period of time the south of the U.S was the main cotton producer, the north/east was processing it and the economy of the country was sustained by the cotton plantation and industry.
What is the Cotton Boom?
A practice in which military methods used to control colonies and brought back to be used against redlined neighborhoods
What is imperial boomerang?
The combination of this and the civil rights movement caused an increased demand for jobs at a time where factories were being moved outside of the country. Mass incarceration was used to solve this problem
What is de-industrialization?
Redlining contributed to the racial wealth gap by preventing many communities of color from accessing home loans and building generational wealth.
What is housing discrimination?
Describes a person, group or thing present in a specific example or dataset at a higher proportion than its representation in the general population.
What is: Overrepresentation
This law allowed slave patrols to search all Black people's houses for arms and other weapons and to examine white servants as well. If an illegal object was found the servant/slave would be punished with the whip. It also established that enslaved people couldn’t play music or the drums.
What is the 1721 Charleston Law?
In efforts to teach racism in academic spaces, universities like UC Berkeley integrated this into their curriculum.
What is Eugenics?
Identity is a construct formed by this economic system to facilitate the exploitation it necessitates. Mass incarceration is tool currently being used for cheap/free labor to support this theory
What is Racial Capitalism?
It's the form of racism defined not by individual prejudice, but by the combination of a society's systems (housing, education, healthcare, criminal justice etc) working together to restrict resources and opportunities
What is Structural Racism?