Week 9:
Boarding Schools
Boarding Schools
He said, “Our nation was born in genocide... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy, to wipe out its indigenous population.”
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
The U.S. President that started the War on Drugs
Who is Richard Millhouse Nixon?
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
What is the 14th Amendment?
The source of funds that primarily go towards public schools in that area.
What are Property Taxes?
A Lakota phrase that describes our connections to all living and non-living things in multiple and vital ways.
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ
The official United States federal policy towards Native Americans. (Hint: It's an infamous phrase)
What is “Kill the Indian, Save the Man”?
This early 20th century film perpetuated racist stereotypes and made it mainstream.
What is "Birth of a Nation"?
This act emerged in the context of rising anti-immigrant sentiment, driven by fears of job competition and racial prejudice, particularly in the rapidly industrializing West.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
The predominantly Chicano neighborhood located North of Downtown Los Angeles which was destroyed in order to build Dodger Stadium.
What was Chavez Ravine?
He exclaimed, “America is a continent and cannot be monopolized by a single country like the United States. American has no borders. It actually runs from Alaska to Patagonia.”
Who is Alfonzo X. Alcaron
“A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.”
What is Imperialism?
The exception allowing slavery as punishment for a crime was a deliberate result found in this Amendment.
What is the 13th Amendment?
One of the most persistent stereotypes in the U.S. that perpetuates the racist belief that people of Asian racial backgrounds excelled in fields purely due to their race.
What is the Model Minority Myth?
The process of ascribing racial meaning to people or groups, and categorizing them based on race, while subjecting them to unequal treatment.
What is Racialization?
A West African teaching that expresses affirmation and translates to "so be it," or "word"
What is Ashé?
The U.S Army officer who founded the first Native American Boarding school know as the Carlisle Indian School.
Who was Richard Henry Pratt?
The observation that mass incarceration functions as a modern system of radicalized social control.
What is The New Jim Crow?
Also known as “PIC” the term was introduced by activists and scholars to contest prevailing beliefs that increased levels of crime were the root cause of mounting prison populations.
What is the Prison Industrial System?
The right of a government or its agent to expropriate (take away or take possession of) private property for public use, with payment of compensation.
What is Eminent Domain?
The theory that Xicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa expressed that states, “[it] depends on the breaking down of [old] paradigms... a change in the way we perceive reality, the way we see ourselves, and the ways we behave.”
What is New Mestiza Consciousness?
The murder of knowledge through unequal exchanges among cultures (subordinated cultures) and the death of social groups that possessed it.
What is Epistemicide?
The organization that authored model bills to expand mass incarceration.
Who is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)?
This Central Valley city served as one of the main locations Black Southerners relocated to from states like Oklahoma for what they referred to as a "subtler kind of racism."
What is South Dos Palos?
Specifically barred land from being “sold, devised, used, or occupied” by any person other than of the White or Causasian race.
What are Racial Covenants?
This historic African American figure won a court decision at the CA Supreme Court that permitted his son to attend an all-White high school in Visalia prior to the Brown v. Board of Education case, which would impact black public school students for generations.
Who is Edmond Wysinger?