Apartheid and Oppression
What is apartheid?
What is a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race (in South Africa).
What was one major way colonial forces erased Black African cultural identity?
Imposed European ideals
Irradiated African customs
Took advantage of Africa's ethnic variety
In Born a Crime, Trevor Noah recounts how apartheid policies not only segregated students by placing black students in B classes but also demeaned them by labeling them “leftovers.” This segregation forced them to learn what kind of skills?
What is Heavy labor skills?
What act in the apartheid prohibited relationships between white and black South Africans?
What is the Immorality Act?
What was a lasting effect of apartheid on the colored community in South Africa?
Limited access to education
Unequal pay for jobs
Segregated communities
Under apartheid, the Immorality Amendment Act of 1950 banned interracial relationships, while the Group Areas Act forced coloured families to the outskirts of cities. According to Trevor Noah’s memoir and the article, these policies led to mixed-race individuals being legally classified in a way that left them without a clear racial identity.
What is being classified as “colored” and forced into a marginalized, in-between identity?
What are 2 similarities apartheid and oppressive systems share?
Institutionalized discrimination
Systemic oppression
Denial of basic human rights to targeted groups
How did the transatlantic slave trade contribute to the loss of African identity?
Stripped Africans of their clothes, belongings, ancestry, and names.
In born a crime, an excerpt shows a moment where years of separation, then reconnecting the protagonist with a long-missed father, an experience that reflects the article’s emphasis on reconnecting with one’s past to reclaim ___?
What is reclaiming one's cultural and familial identity?