What is Ethnic Studies?
They are the four foundational perspectives through which Ethnic Studies looks at U.S. history.
What are Asian, Black, Indigenous, and Latino Americans?
The qualities or beliefs that make a particular person or group different from others.
What is identity?
It's the result of a Yale University study where babies choose one stuffed animal over another.
What is 85% of the time, babies choose the helpful animal over the harmful?
It was the major rule change once pools became fun for the whole family.
What is that men and women can go together, but only for white people?
Stereotyping.
What is the false idea that all members of a group are alike in the same way?
This is the name of the student group that went on strike to get Ethnic Studies classes at their university.
What is the Third World Liberation Front?
These are some aspects of your identity that would be ABOVE the waterline.
What are clothing and physical appearance?
"Illegal alien" is this type of language.
What is "dehumanizing"?
In the 1800s, pools were built for this use, with this rule for who could them and when.
What are bathhouses, where the races shared the water, but men and women went on separate days?
It's called propaganda.
What is the deliberate spreading of information to persuade people to think or feel a certain way?
It's the reason students at this university went on strike for 5 months. (2-part)
What is San Francisco State University, because there was no diversity covered in their U.S. history classes?
These are some qualities of your identity that would be BELOW the waterline.
What are your nationality, languages, hobbies, and health?
What is the point or action when two brain cells meet and communicate, exchanging information?
They're called "third places".
What are places where people spend free time between home and work/school, making friends and having fun?
The percentage of Americans who say they can swim, vs. the percentage of those who meet all 5 skills needed.
What is 80% vs 56%?
In this year, California became the first state to do this.
What is in 2021, all high school students must pass with at least one semester of Ethnic Studies?
These are some qualities of your identity that would be AT the waterline.
What are marital status, age, religion, and socioeconomic status?
This is the word that means the brain's ability to grow and make new learning.
What is neuroplasticity?
This city had a pool that could fit this many people, but it closed for this reason.
What St. Louis, 10,000 people, and they did not want to allow all races in the pool?
Bias.
What is a preference for or against an individual or group that affects fair judgement?
It's the definition of Ethnic Studies.
What is the study of race and ethnicity, as understood through the perspectives of major underrepresented groups in the U.S.?
It's how your identity is like an iceberg.
What are some parts of your identity are visible, others you might know after a short conversation, and most parts known only to people who really know you?
This woman proved that you can unlearn hate by having new experiences outside your community.
Who is Megan Phelps Roper?
It's the breakdown of adults - by race - who say they cannot swim.
What is 37% Black, 26% Latino, and 6% white?
It is the collective effort of many to work together in order to achieve their goals.
What is solidarity?