Race is Made, Not Born
Schooling, Sorting, and Power
Colorblind Racism
Immigration & Assimilation
Solidarity & Resistance
100

Race is best understood as this type of concept

Social construct

100

An alternative term to "at-risk"

At-Promise

100

The belief that race no longer matters

Colorblind racism

100

Reasons people are forced to leave countries

Push factors

100

Groups working together across race, class, or other forms of division

Solidarity

200

This theory explains how race is created and changes over time

Racial Formation Theory

200

An alternative to the term dropout. Explain it

Pushout. Blame not on student

200

“Everyone has equal opportunity” reflects this

Abstract liberalism

200

Theory that expects immigrants to adopt dominant culture

Assimilation

200

This example showed multiracial organizing in Chicago

Rainbow Coalition

300

This process assigns meaning to groups (dangerous, smart, etc.)

Racialization

300

The California case that desegregated schools for Mexican American children and influenced desegregation statewide

Mendez et. al v. Westminster

300

“People stick with their own kind” reflects this

Naturalization

300

Maintaining identity while gaining access

Integration

300

Survivors sharing their stories about boarding schools represents this Ethnic Studies tool:

Storytelling

400

Race: The Power of an Illusion, argues that humans are remarkably similar genetically, regardless of race. The series highlights that any two human beings are approximately what percent identical at the DNA level

99.9%

400

School discipline systems are often connected to this larger system

Prison system

400

Blaming inequality on culture reflects this

Cultural racism

400

Multiple cultures coexisting without losing identity

Pluralism

400

Name 3 forms of resistance

EX. cultural preservation, storytelling, lowriding

500

If race shapes housing and education outcomes, this suggests race operates at this level:

Structural

500

How are schools funded and why is it problematic?

Property taxes. Wealth = Good Schools

500

“Racism isn’t as bad anymore” reflects this

Minimization of racism

500

Explain what these images reveal about manifest destiny


The myth of manifest destiny

500

Solidarity is strongest when it is based on this:

Shared struggle and understanding