CRT
CRT term for arguing that racism is widely embedded in society, rather than existing only in individual prejudice.
Systemic or institutional racism
This 1954 Supreme Court decision ruled segregated public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
What is socially constructed?
Scholars emphasize that African American Studies is not just history, but this type of interdisciplinary field.
What is interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary?
This cartoonist created The Boondocks as a comic strip before the TV series.
Who is Aaron McGruder?
CRT critiques the idea that legal systems are neutral and this “C-word,” meaning without racial bias.
What is colorblind?
Founded in 1909 by W. E. B. DuBois and others, this interracial civil rights organization fought lynching and segregation.
What is the NAACP?
Racism is ________ is one of CRT's basic tenets
What is ordinary or common?
The current chair of Africana Studies at Gettysburg College
Who is Dr. Hakim Williams?
The character is meant to embody the harmful behavior of self-hatred or internalized racism
Who is Uncle Ruckus?
This concept, coined by Derrick Bell, suggests that racial justice advances only when it aligns with white interests.
What is social interest convergence?
The 15th amendment gave this group the constitutional right to vote in the United States.
Who are Black male citizens?
This term was created to address how multiple identities may create legally undefined categories of disadvantaged.
What is intersectionality?
This year is the _______ anniversary of African American/Africana Studies at Gettysburg College
What is 40th?
The show uses humor to question this concept: pretending the U.S. has moved beyond race.
What is post-racialism?
The ways in which social constructions of race can shift, even in contradictory ways, according to the needs or interests of the dominant group
What is differential racialization?
This 19th-century abolitionist, writer, and orator escaped slavery to become a leading public voice and the most photographed man in the 19th century United States.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Making room for voices of color or historically disadvantaged groups in the law and courts was described as this in the third chapter.
What is legal storytelling?
In Saltwater Slavery, Stephanie Smallwood makes this argument connected to the term 'The Middle Passage.'
What is multiple passages?
Terrance Tucker argues that The Boondocks intends to demonstrate that Blackness in the United States is not this.
What is monolithic?
This legal scholar is credited with first using the term “critical race theory” in the late 1980s.
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?
The term that explains how a legal case can have more than one 'correct' legal outcome
The field often bridges scholarship with activism, an approach sometimes called this.
What is praxis?
What do you call a Black man who flies a plane?
A pilot, you racist bastards