Race as a Social Construct
Racial ideologies that are seen as natural, normal, and inevitable.
What is hegemonic/hegemony?
The idea that the United States is a land of opportunity and that African Americans could do better if they only try harder.
What is enlightened racism?
The presumed superiority of native-born citizens, favoring the allocation of resources to them over immigrants and promoting a fear of foreign cultures.
What is nativism?
Instead of being passive, this form of media allows users to actively engage.
What are video games?
Roberto G. Gonzales examines the transition to adulthood among this generation of undocumented Latino young adults
What is the 1.5-generation?
Patterned portrayals of racial groups that present particular characterizations over and over.
What are controlling images?
This form of racism allows for the rationalization of racial inequality.
What is scientific racism?
True or False:
The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) that would allow undocumented youth who finish high school in the US to apply for legalization and citizenship, passed in 2016.
What is FALSE?
The Dream Act still has not passed.
The _______________ notion refers to a system that enables lighter-skinned women to have more resources than darker-skinned women.
What is the beauty queue?
According to Anne S. Runyan, intersectionality has become a ____________
What is a buzzword?
The psychological benefits white workers received by aligning with the dominant group, their white bosses, as opposed to developing working-class solidarity with recently freed black slaves (DuBois 1936).
What is the Wage of Whiteness?
This is a form of cultural racism against people of Middle Eastern heritage.
What is Anti-Arab racism?
Groups have an internal group scaling system, such as that lighter-skinned people are seen as more capable and beautiful and darker-skinned members are not provided as many opportunities.
What is skin-color stratification?
A type of power dynamic in which members of a dominant culture take elements from the culture of people who have been systematically oppressed by that dominant group.
What is cultural appropriation?
This happens when people feel that they have the right to hold their beliefs and not feel attacked for having them.
What is the right to not be challenged?
List 5 of the 6 key agents of socialization.
What are:
(1) Parents; (2) Family; (3) Peers
(4) Church; (5) Media; (6) School
This form of racism is the key to understanding racism in the US because racism is more than individual acts of discrimination and is rooted in policies, laws, and institutions that reproduce racial inequalities.
What is institutional racism?
The executive order, DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), protects Dreamers from deportation for ____ years.
What is 2 years?
In the article, "My hijab is like my skin color", the authors use what two theories to expand Selod's idea of gendered socialization?
What are racialization and intersectionality?
Kimberle Crenshaw advanced intersectional analysis through her study of domestic violence against women of color, particularly immigrant women, in ______________.
What is Los Angeles?
List 2 of the 3 ways people typically respond when faced with controlling images/stereotypes.
What are:
1) internalize them and accept them as reality,
2) resist them and develop our own ideas about black masculinity or femininity [or other groups by gender], or
3) ignore them.
This form of racism looks beyond a single system and instead examines the interinstitutional interactions across time and space that reproduce racial inequality.
What is structural racism?
The __________________ Act invoked racialized sentiments about Mexicans taking jobs from Americans, overusing welfare, and refusing to assimilate, despite evidence to the contrary
Twin Goals: (1) offer a legalization option… (2) employers had to hire authorized workers
What is the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA)
This form of intersectionality tends to homogenize experiences to validate without recognizing historic differences and contemporary needs.
What is ornamental intesrectionality?
The Gonzales article focuses on three transition periods:
Discovery: Ages ____ to _____
Learning to be Illegal: Ages ____ to _____
Coping: Ages _____ to ______
What is?
Discovery: Ages 16 to 18
Learning to be Illegal: Ages 18 to 24
Coping: Ages 25 to 29