Anti-Racist Vocab
This term describes societal structures that disadvantage certain racial groups through policies and practices.
What is systemic racism?
This ancient civilization is famous for pyramids, pharaohs, and contributions to math and medicine.
What is Egypt?
The victorious and powerful slave rebellion which led to the first free and independent Black state, took place in:
What is Haiti.
The stereotype depicting Black women as seductive, alluring, worldly, beguiling, tempting?
What is the The Jezebel
Kimberle Crenshaw, coined the term:
What is intersectionality
Name the four roots of anti-Back Racism:
What is Enslavement, Segregation, Criminalization Dehumanization.
This ideology centers African perspectives in understanding history and culture.
What is Afrocentrism?
This brutal leg of the Triangular Trade transported enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This stereotype depicts Black people, usually men as
Lazy
Idle, inarticulate buffoon
Not capable of living as an independent adult
What is Sambo.
Contrast the legal segregation of the Jim Crow South in the U.S. with the unofficial segregation experienced by Black Canadians in the 20th century.
Jim Crow laws in the U.S. were codified and legally enforced; in Canada, segregation was informal but widespread in schools, housing, and employment, often without official laws but with deeply ingrained societal practices.
This theory examines how race and racism intersect with other forms of power and are embedded in legal systems.
What is Critical Race Theory?
This ancient city was once known for having the most extensive libraries and renowned universities:
What is Timbuktu
This movement fought for racial justice in both the U.S. and the Caribbean during the 1960s and 70s.
What is the Black Power Movement?
This term is used when exploring favoritism towards light-skin individuals. Appears cross culturally.
What is colourism
The largest population of trafficked enslaved people were forced to settle in
What is Brazil
Daily Double)
This term refers to subtle, often unintentional, remarks or behaviors that reinforce stereotypes or cause offense.
What are microaggressions?
This myth portrayed Africa as primitive and uncivilized to justify colonization.
What is the “Dark Continent” myth?
What was the following key outcome of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional
This harmful belief casts non-Black people, especially white people, as heroic saviors of Black communities.
What is white saviorism?
A once vibrant, wealthy, prosperous early Black settlement in Western Canada. Taken away for the construction of a highway.
What is Hogan’s Alley.
The unconscious or hidden bias; the negative associations that people unknowingly hold. They are expressed automatically, without conscious awareness:
What is Implicit Bias
Name three ancient African empires known for their wealth, learning, or trade.
What are Mali, Ghana, and Songhai?
(Daily Double)
Name two early forms of resistance enslaved Africans used to survive and defy slavery.
What are drumming to communicate, sabotage, literacy, revolts, or preserving culture?
Give two experiences that many racialized people in the LGBTQ+ community have to deal with
What is discrimination within both racial and LGBTQ+ spaces, mental health challenges, cultural/religion/ family, stereotypical representation or none at all in the media.
Name one institution that has perpetuated institutionalized racism and how.
Responses will vary:
Example: What is the justice system through racial profiling and disproportionate incarceration?