All About DEI
Identify the acronym: DEI
What is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
This law requires businesses/ buildings to be accessible.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
This 2018 Marvel movie was praised for its Black representation and African setting.
What is Black Panther?
This university partners closely with the Myaamia Tribe to support language and cultural revitalization.
What is Miami University?
This 1776 document declared the American colonies’ independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This Ohio bill recently changed aspects of DEI in the workplace and public institutions.
What is Senate Bill 1?
Discrimination in favor of non-disabled people is called this.
What is ableism?
This TV show featured one of the first predominantly Asian-American casts in a mainstream sitcom in the 2010s
What is Fresh Off the Boat?
This organization leads efforts to preserve and teach the Myaamia language and culture.
What is the Myaamia Center?
This 1920 amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This time period is when the concept of DEI was first created.
What is the 1960s - originated from the Civil Rights Movement?
This 1990s protest had activists abandon mobility devices and crawl up the 33 steps to the Capitol.
What is the Capitol Crawl?
This artist’s album Renaissance celebrates Black queer culture.
Who is Beyoncé?
This forced migration in the 1800s relocated many Native American tribes, including the Myaamia, westward.
What is Indian Removal (or the Trail of Tears era)?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This refers to unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding and decisions.
What is implicit bias?
In this major city, disability activists took over and occupied a government building for 26 days.
What is San Francisco?
This film won Best Picture in 2020 and is the first non-English language film to do so.
What is Parasite?
This cultural value emphasizes strong family and community connections in Myaamia society.
What is kinship (or community responsibility)?
This 1803 deal doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This concept explains how overlapping identities (like race and gender) shape experiences of discrimination.
What is intersectionality?
This concept emphasizes that disability is caused by societal barriers, not just medical conditions.
What is the social model of disability?
This actress became the first deaf performer to win an Oscar in 2022 for CODA.
Who is Marlee Matlin?
Traditional Myaamia subsistence included hunting, fishing, and this agricultural practice often called the “Three Sisters.”
What is growing corn, beans, and squash?
These amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th) aimed to secure rights for formerly enslaved people.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?