"Inferior Genes; Inferior Intelligence"
The idea that inferior genes generate intellectual deficits of groups.
What is hereditarianism?
Studies have shown that this marginalized group has centered their family goals and values around education.
Who are Mexican-Americans?
This tenet offers a liberator or transformative response to racial, gender, and class oppression.
What is commitment to social justice?
The intellectual and social skills attained through communication experiences in more than one language and/or style.
What is linguistic capital?
Intelligence could be "reliably" measured through this platform.
What are standardized tests (or IQ tests)?
This myth continues to exist for low-income people of color and their beliefs around education. (3 ideas)
What is they don't value education, they do not instill that value in their children, and they do not participate in the children's education?
Analyzes race and racism within both historical and contemporary contexts.
What is the transdisciplinary perspective?
The networks of people and community resources.
What is social capital?
This notion was introduced in academia in this decade.
What are the 1920s?
It is a flexible and destructive ideology.
What is educational deficit thinking?
CRT draws explicitly from the lived experiences of POC by including such methods as storytelling, family histories, biographies, scenarios, parables, cuentos, testimonios, chronicles, and narratives.
What is the centrality of experiential knowledge?
The skills to maneuver through social institutions.
What is navigational capital?
Arthur Jensen's 1969 monograph asserted that intelligence was genetically influenced. His suggestion caused public debate.
What are two levels of educability: low and high? (Also acceptable: description that Black students should concentrate on developing lower-level skills since they were genetically unable to master higher level cognitive skills).
A shift on long-standing deficit thinking blames _______ instead of _______.
What is Latinx/POC’s parents and structural problems in schools?
The premise that race and racism are central, endemic, permanent, and a fundamental part of defining and explaining how the US society functions.
What is the intercentricity of race and racism with other forms of subordination?
Ability to maintain hopes and dreams for the future, even in the face of challenges.
What is aspirational capital?
Describe a recent example of hereditarianism that continues to inaccurately assume that intelligence is based on genetics.
What is The Bell Curve, which claims to divide people into the cognitive elite (with a high IQ) and the "very dull" (with a low IQ)?
This term deflects the attention away from injustices perpetuated and institutionalized by the dominant society. It is a metaphor for cultural deprivation and culturally disadvantaged.
What is "at-risk"?
Challenges White privilege and refutes the claims that educational institutions make towards objectivity, meritocracy, color-blindness, race neutrality, and equal opportunity.
What is the challenge to dominant ideology?
Refers to those cultural knowledges nurtured among kin that carry a sense of community, history, memory, and cultural intuition.
What is familial capital?