Terms and Definitions
Forms of Oppression
Race and Ethnicity
Socialization and Assimilation
Critical Concepts
100

This term refers to the socially constructed system that establishes white people as the standard or superior group.

What is White Supremacy Culture?

100

This form of oppression happens when a person treats another person or group unfairly on a personal level.

What is Interpersonal Oppression?

100

A social category used to classify humans based on physical characteristics, like skin color.

What is Race?

100

The continuous, lifelong process by which we learn societal norms and expectations.

What is Socialization?

100

This is the rationale given to make discrimination or oppressive actions seem acceptable or reasonable.

What is Justification?

200

The term used to describe the group in society that holds the most power and is considered the norm.

What is the Dominant Group?

200

A deeply held belief that certain ideologies or groups are superior and are reflected in society's institutions.

What is Ideological Oppression?

200

A term that refers to groups of people based on shared culture, language, or heritage.

What is Ethnicity?

200

This cycle helps explain how individuals are socialized to accept oppression and marginalization.

What is the Cycle of Socialization?

200

This theory posits that society operates in a way that benefits the dominant group at the expense of others.


Correct Answer will give you x2 pts

What is Critical Race Theory?

300

This group is marginalized or oppressed in relation to the dominant group in society.

What is the Non-Dominant Group?

300

When individuals from marginalized groups accept and adopt negative messages about themselves, this occurs.

What is Internalized Oppression?

300

The belief that race is not a biological reality but rather a creation of social and historical processes.

What is a Social Construct?

300

The process of taking on the characteristics and practices of a new group, often at the expense of one's original culture.

What is Assimilation?

300

This term refers to the belief that people should adapt and conform to the dominant culture in society.

What is Cultural Assimilation?

400

This term refers to a system that gives advantages to some groups while disadvantaging others.

What is Oppression?

400

This term refers to the ways in which oppression is built into society’s laws, policies, and institutions

What is Institutional Oppression?

400

This is a concept that suggests race does not have biological foundations but impacts societal treatment of individuals.

Correct answer will give you x2 pts 

What is Race as a Social Construct?

400

The process where marginalized groups are forced to give up their culture and adopt the dominant culture.

What is Forced Assimilation?

400

This social framework seeks to challenge the way social identities, like race and gender, intersect and affect oppression.

Correct Answer will get your team x2 pts

What is Intersectionality?

500

This term explains how societal norms and rules are created to reinforce the interests of those in power.

What is Institutional Oppression?

500

The type of oppression that is upheld through discriminatory laws, policies, and cultural norms over time.

Correct answer gets you x2 Pts

What is Systemic Oppression?

500

The historical process where a racial or ethnic group is absorbed into the dominant culture, often through coercion.

What is Forced Assimilation?

500

The social mechanisms that allow the dominant group to maintain its power through beliefs and behaviors. 

Correct answer will give you x2 pts

What is Hegemony?

500

The practice of labeling someone or something as a justification for inequality.


Correct Answer will get you x2 pts

What is Othering?