White Privilege
White Supremacy
Countries & Colonialism
Definitions
Genocides
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What is white privilege?
the set of unearned social and economic advantages that white people have by virtue of their race
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What is white supremacy?
beliefs and ideas purporting natural superiority of the lighter-skinned, or “white,” human races over other racial groups.
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The first country to colonize another
The Portuguese started the long age of European colonization with the conquest of Ceuta, Morocco in 1415, and the conquest and discovery of other African territories and islands, this would also start the movement known as the Age of Discoveries.
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What is Colonialism?
a practice by which a one group of people, social construct, or nation state controls, directs, or imposes taxes or tribute on other people or areas, often by establishing colonies, generally for strategic and economic advancement of the colonizing group or construct
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What was the Holocaust?
The Genocide of European Jews during WW2
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Uncomfortability and guilty feelings when discussing topics of race and how white privilege benefits white individuals
What is White Fragility
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What are the three central logics of White Supremacy?
Genocide, Slavery, and Orientalism.
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What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
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The justification for taking native lands on the basis that it is "empty" land
What is Manifest Destiny/Terra Nullius?
200
What was the Cambodian genocide?
The Cambodian genocide was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodians, by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Communist Party of Kampuchea general secretary Pol Pot.
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How does white privilege show up in our profession?
Color-blindness, Culturally insensitive comments/interventions, white savior complex. paternalism, using white people/experience as a normative reference
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Characteristics of white supremacy culture?
Hegemony of whiteness, Perfectionism, Patriarchy, Individualism, Paternalism, Quality over Quantity, Worship of the Written word, Either/or thinking, Sense of Urgency, Fear of Open conflict, Power hoarding, Right to comfort, Defensiveness
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the longest occupation in history?
One of the world's longest ongoing occupations is Israel's occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem (1967-present) and the Gaza Strip (1967–2005), both Palestinian territories.
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What is Apartheid?
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s.
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What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The outfitted European slave ships of the slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries
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Define Intersectionality
the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
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How is White Supremacy upheld?
It is enmeshed in all of our systems(education, healthcare, politics, etc.)
In the way we tell history(art, inventors, etc.) are mostly from white perspective, other narratives become irrelevant or devalued
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List 4 countries in conflict as a result of colonialism and western domination
Syria, Ukraine, Zimbabwe, Sudan, South Sudan, Rwanda, Mali, Indonesia, Iraq, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Cambodia, Burma, Bosnia, Armenia, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Bangladesh.
400
DAILY DOUBLE
Define White Privilege vs. White Supremacy
White privilege is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-white people in some societies, particularly if they are otherwise under the same social, political, or economic circumstances.
White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races and thus should dominate them. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white people.
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What was the Rwandan Genocide?
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group were killed by armed Hutu militias.
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The false belief that America has made significant progress against racial inequalities that racism no longer exists
The myth of a post-racial society
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Define Ethnic Cleansing
the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society.
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Finish this quote, "Walk softly and..."
Who said this?
Carry a big stick. President Teddy Roosevelt
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What is Settler Colonialism?
A system of oppression based on genocide and colonialism, that aims to displace a population of a nation (oftentimes indigenous people) and replace it with a new settler population.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doi3CnnT8qs
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What was the Armenian Genocide?
The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.