Back to the Basics
This term refers to the totality of ways in which society enacts racial discrimination across institutions, culture, and history.
What is structural racism?
True or False: Modern genetic research supports the idea that humans can be divided into distinct biological races.
What is False?
This 1930s federal housing practice graded neighborhoods by perceived lending risk and helped institutionalize residential segregation.
What is redlining?
This constitutional amendment abolished slavery but preserved involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime, creating a legal exception that connects to convict leasing and the later growth of mass incarceration.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Brown University monument publicly acknowledges the university’s historical ties to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade.
What is the slavery memorial?
While ________ refers to the internal process of forming assumptions about an individual based on perceived racial group membership, ________ involves the outward expression of those assumptions through differential treatment or behavior.
What is the prejudice and discrimination?
In a video that we watched during class, this sociologist and physician reminds us that race is a social category, not a biological one.
Who is Dorothy Roberts?
This Louisiana region, home to more than 150 petrochemical facilities, is commonly known by a nickname that reflects its unusually high 'disease' burden.
What is Cancer Alley?
George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin hinged on jury instructions regarding this state law that allows individuals to use deadly force rather than retreat.
What is the 'Stand Your Ground' Statute?
Name of two classmates most likely to fall asleep during class?
Who is...
The belief that "I don't see color" may sound inclusive, but this concept suggests it can actually ignore systemic inequality.
What is colorblind racism?
David Williams argues that racism becomes "embedded" in society because it operates across multiple interconnected institutions. Name two institutions he repeatedly identified as shaping health.
What is housing, education, employment, or the health care system?
This term describes the process by which wealthier residents move into higher-elevation neighborhoods that are less vulnerable to flooding, often displacing longtime residents.
What is climate gentrification?
Created a legal system that restricted where Black Americans could live, learn, work, vote, and travel while reinforcing White supremacy through state-sanctioned segregation and unequal enforcement.
What are Jim Crow laws?
The African American photographer who documented Rhode Island throughout his career and his works are featured in the AAMRI.
Who is Omar Bradley?
This concept describes the cumulative wear and tear on the body caused by repeated exposure to chronic stress, including racism.
What is weathering?
This concept did not disappear with eugenics. According to our course, it continues whenever researchers use race as a biological category rather than recognizing it as a social construct shaped by history, policy, and racism.
What is race science?
Throughout this course, we learned that environmental racism affects health through many pathways. Name at least five documented health outcomes associated with long-term exposure to hazards such as industrial pollution, agricultural pesticides, petrochemical facilities, contaminated drinking water, extreme heat, flooding, fossil fuel infrastructure, or aging infrastructure.
What are asthma, cancer, lead poisoning (or lead exposure), heat-related illness, chronic stress, adverse birth outcomes, chronic disease, occupational injury, mental health harms, and reduced life expectancy?
This organization writes model legislation that has promoted policies benefiting corporate interests, including the expansion of private prisons, privatization of public services, and reduced government regulation. State legislators can introduce these bills, often with little modification.
What is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)?
Name of the undergraduate university and major of your TA, Kayla.
What are Dillard and Biology?
Camara Phyllis Jones describes three interconnected levels of racism. Match each level to its definition by filling in the blanks.
What are internalized racism, institutionalized racism, and personally mediated racism?
Scientists agree that there is generally more genetic variation ______ racial groups than ______ racial groups.
What is within; between?
In what year were these two landmark federal health insurance programs established, providing the federal government with a powerful tool to enforce hospital desegregation under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act?
What are 1965 and Medicare and Medicaid?
This course argued that educational inequality has been shaped as much by Supreme Court decisions as by legislation. Name any 2 landmark Supreme Court cases that defined the constitutional limits of segregation, desegregation, or race-conscious admissions.
What are Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Milliken v. Bradley, Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, Grutter v. Bollinger, Gratz v. Bollinger, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, or Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard?
On average, non-Hispanic Black individuals earn this amount for every dollar earned by non-Hispanic White individuals. Name that amount and the largest contributor to household wealth in the United States.
What are 59 cents and homeownership?