Ethnic Studies and Terminology
Constructions of Race and Gender
Immigration and Farming Resistance
Incarceration, Housing, and Poverty
Education and TEK
100

The university where the Third World Liberation Front started. 

San Francisco State University (SF State) 

100

One of the oldest Drag Kings in the country and co-founded the Sequoia Empire Court in Visalia.

Who is El Daña (Elsie Saldaña) - Drag King of the Central Valley? 

100

This program started as bilateral agreement between the U.S. and Mexico to support a labor shortage during WWII. 

What is the Bracero Program? 

100

The 13th amendment has abolished slavery accept as... 

What is a punishment of a crime? 

100

Traditional Ecological Knowledge is passed down this way. 

What is oral tradition/story-telling? 

200

These walkouts were part of Chicanx student resistance in Los Angeles, fighting for equal education. Sal Castro was the Mexican American history teacher who guided the 15,000 students who participated across East L.A. high schools.

 

1968: East Los Angeles Walkouts/Blowouts


200

Kimberlé Crenshaw coined this term in 1989 after working on Emma DeGraffenreid v. General Motors. 

What is intersectionality? 

200

The Filipino American activist who worked alongside Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.

Who is Larry Itliong? 

200

To address the impacts of the Great Depression, FDR created the National Housing Act of 1934. FHA and HOLC had to develop these maps to assess risk in neighborhoods and cities. 

What are redlined maps/redlining? 

200

What plants are a part of the “The Three Sisters”?

What are beans, squash and corn? 

300

Linguistic, Social, Familial, Aspirational, and Navigational Capital are all forms of this. 

What is Community Cultural Wealth?



300

Women of Color feminists coined this term to not only think of _____ through a binary but instead to understand how race, gender, class, and other identities shape access to healthcare.

What is reproductive justice? 


300

“An ideology: a set of beliefs and ideas based on the premise that foreigners are threats to the nation and its people” (Erika Lee). 

What is Xenophobia? 

300

____ works with corporations and lawmakers to create laws like "three strikes" laws and "stand your ground". Allowing for the nonprofit to push policies that expand incarceration for the benefit of private prisons and corporate wealth.

What is ALEC? 

300

Indians of All Tribes built a thriving village here that drew in Native youth and communities nationwide, demanding Native American Studies.

Where is Alcatraz? 

400

If I gave the class all the same size pair of shoes that would be _____. If I gave everyone in the class a pair of shoes in their size that would be ______. 

What is equality and equity?  

400

Which fallacy of racism is this statement, "I’ve never experienced racism before! I think people are exaggerating."

What is the Individualistic Fallacy? 

400

This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and altered the U.S.–Mexico border. This resulted in Mexico loosing around 50% of its territory and the U.S. pushed forward Manifest Destiny in one of the largest land grabs.

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? 

400

Banks like Wells Fargo also targeted Black families with these loans by going to Black churches and creating wealth management courses.

What are subprime loans? 

400

The case where a Chinese American family fought to send their children to school and brought light to how education was not equal. State education codes allowed to exclude children who “filthy or vicious habits, or children with contagious or infectious diseases”.

Tape v. Hurley

500

What are three demands of the Third World Liberation Front? 

1. School of Ethnic Studies 

2. Rehire George Murray 

3. Increase the faculty of color 

4. Staff of color in the expansion of Financial Aid and Work-Study Programs

5. Reserved spots for students of color


500

Process of different groups of people being treated or labeled differently based upon racial categories/characteristics. This process can fluid where certain groups are labeled and relabeled based on multiple factors.

What is racialization? 

500

An executive order that interned Japanese Americans along the West Coast in 1942. 

and

An act that allowed for the surveillance without warrants that mostly targeted Muslim American communities after 9/11. 

What is Executive Order 9066 and 2001:Patriot Act 

500

Free breakfast programs, free dental/health clinics, and free busing to prison programs. In total, there were around 65 social programs. These programs allowed folks a sense of community

Black Panther's Community Survival Programs

500

Spanish speaking in schools was banned, resources were not equal and many students faced abusive conditions. Families came together to fight for equal education in a class action lawsuit. This case desegregated Mexican American students in California.

What is Mendez v. Westminster?