Finding Your Roots
This is type of home where people were whipped and forced to work on until they die or is killed.
What is plantation?
Private beliefs, prejudices, assumption & ideas that an individual may have. It is also “a form of racial discrimination that stems from conscious and unconscious, personal prejudice.”
What is personal racism?
Observation, Analysis, Interference, Communication and Problem Solving are all part of a system when collecting or arguing facts.
What is critical skills thinking?
Literal meaning of torture is anguish of body or mind, the infliction of intense pain or to punish, coerce or afford sadistic pleasure.
What is torture?
This famous singer/actor bleached his skin to appease society accepting him as a white man, not as a black male.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This holiday is celebrated on June 19th and it commemorates the end of slavery in America.
What is Juneteenth?
Communication that has racial thoughts, expression, prejudice and assumptions between two or more people.
What is interpersonal racism?
STOP is an acronym that is worth remembering!
S - Stay
T - Think
O - Observe
P - Plan
Electric shocks, brain surgery, amputations — these are just some of the medical experiments widely performed on American slaves in the mid-1800s, according to a new survey of medical journals published before the Civil War.
What is barbaric procedures?
Inequalities between light and dark people, supported by racist ideas about light and dark people
What is colorism?
New York City was a hot bed for thousands of imigrants coming into America from other countries for the first time.
What is Ellis Island?
Racial discrimination that comes from individuals carrying out orders of others who are prejudiced or of a prejudiced society. This occurs within institutions and systems of power.
What is institutional (systematic) racism?
Whitewashing true historical facts of racism in American history
Fear of what they don't understand, and ignorance toward critical topics
Using laws to assert control and power to get what they wantWhat is Critical Race Thinking?
Unit 731 in Japan operated from 1937-1945
What is the Forgotten Asian Auschwitz?
Racism, preference of lighter skin tones result of slavery, and it is used to determine someone's value in society.
What is rooted in colorism?
Thousands of Asians immigrated to America and via California but this place was not taught in history books.
What is the Angel Island?
Racial bias among institutions and across society
What is structural racism?
A man gets lost in the woods and does not stay in place at all.
What is NOT using STOP?
Being dismissed, feeling like you're "crazy", minimizing symptoms and being blames are all signs of something.
What is medical gaslighting?
The “paper bag test,” was used to determine if someone was allowed to enter churches, night clubs, and fraternities. So, people who were darker than the color of a brown paper bag would not be allowed to enter.
What is the paper bag test?
Tracing your lineage is one way to find more information about your family roots.
What is genealogy?
“A psychological construct which makes a person feel the need to save other people. This person has a strong tendency to seek people who desperately need help and to assist them, often sacrificing their own needs for these people.”
What is savior complex?
A person of color would get less health access than a non-person of color.
What is health racial disparities?
1948-2023 - torture still goes on in many countries!
What is 141 countries that still practice medical torture?
Media often downplay the color of the skin especially movies such as Indian culture?
What is Bollywood?