This term means unjust or cruel exercise of power over a group.
What is oppression?
Connect “Privilege” and “Systemic.”
Privilege is often maintained by systemic structures like unequal education funding.
This 1954 case declared that school segregation was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Who was affected by the “Stand Your Ground” law in the case of Trayvon Martin?
Trayvon Martin, his family, and Black communities across the U.S.
What system maintained racial segregation in U.S. schools before 1954?
What is Systemic racism in the education system?
A set of unearned advantages based on social identity.
What is privilege?
Connect “Assimilate” and “Dominant Culture.”
Indigenous children were forced to assimilate into the dominant white culture in Indian Boarding Schools.
These institutions were used to assimilate Indigenous children by erasing their culture.
What are Indian Boarding Schools?
Who was targeted by the UK’s Immigration Act of 1971?
Immigrants from former British colonies, especially Caribbean people.
What system enabled colonizers to rule over Indigenous people?
What are Colonial imperial systems?
This subtle act or comment can unintentionally express bias.
What is a microaggression?
Connect “Colonizer” and “Oppression.”
Colonizers oppressed native populations by taking land and enforcing their culture and laws.
He was the first person in the colonies sentenced to life-long slavery.
Who is John Punch?
Who were the Stolen Generations?
Indigenous children in Australia taken from their families.
What system targeted Black Caribbean immigrants in the UK post-1971?
What are Immigration and racial policy systems?
This concept explains how race, gender, and class can overlap to shape unique experiences.
What is intersectionality?
Connect “Social Construct” and “Race.”
Race is a social construct created to justify systems like chattel slavery.
This 1999 report exposed institutional racism in the UK police.
What is the Macpherson Report?
Who experienced ancestral trauma due to colonization and slavery?
Descendants of enslaved and colonized peoples.
What system allowed police to mishandle Stephen Lawrence’s case?
What is Institutional/systemic racism in law enforcement?
This type of racism happens when people believe negative stereotypes about their own group.
What is internalized racism?
Connect “Agency” and “Haitian Independence.”
The Haitian Revolution showed enslaved people exercising agency to fight for freedom
This revolt ended in the creation of the first independent Black nation.
What is Haitian Independence (1804)?
Who were imprisoned without evidence during WWII due to prejudice?
Who are Japanese Americans.
What system caused intergenerational harm in communities of color?
What is Ancestral trauma caused by systemic oppression like slavery and colonization?