The Beginnings of Black Studies
an interdisciplinary academic field that primarily focuses on the study of the history, culture, and politics of the peoples of the African diaspora and Africa.
Black Studies
is the exercise of power against a racial group defined as inferior by individuals and institutions with the intentional or unintentional
Racism
A person held in slavery or bondage
Enslaved Person
Supporting or Favoring Black People/ Black life
Pro- Black
Public murder, often a hanging, of an individual by a mob.
Lynching
The worldwide dispersal of people from the African continent
African Diaspora
The use of social power, stigmas, and violence against Black people by non-white and non-Black persons toward the attaining of social recognition and resources; may be intentional or unintentional.
Anti- Blackness
The transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular traderoute and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Trans Atlantic Slave Trade
A term coined by W.E.B DuBois as a second sight of being an American
Veil
a series of racist laws and measures that discriminated against African-Americans. Even though these laws were enacted between 1876 and 1965,
Jim Crow
a branch of philosophy that studies the nature, existence, and being of Black people
Black Ontology
a social structure that organizes society along the lines of race, gender, class, and—of course—ethnicity.
White Supremacy
Known as the African holocaust, the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West African.
Middle Passage/ Maffa
American psychologists who as a married team conducted research among children and were active in theJim Crow Era. They founded the Northside Center for Child Development
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
system in which Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations.
Convict leasing
the Study of the African Diaspora and the travel of African people from the African continent and the evolution of these people over time.
Africana Studies
The institutional rules, regulations, policies or government and laws, resulting in communities being disproportionately exposed to toxic and hazardous waste based upon race.
Environmental Racism
The enslaving and owning of human beings and their offspring as property, able to be bought, sold, and forced to work without wages, generational enslavement
Chattel Slavery
the study of Black behavioral patterns. It deals with the total behavior in all situations of Black people throughout the world.
Black Psychology
the institutional separation of an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group from the dominant majority.
Segregation
A coalition of the Black Students Union, the Latin American Students Organization, the Filipino American Collegiate Endeavor (PACE) the Filipino-American Students Organization
Third World Liberation Front (TWLF)
when one holds beliefs of the racial superiority of one group over another AND is able to engage in practices that reinforce the interiorization of that group.
Individual Racism
Loss control over the vital aspects of one’s life and the lives of one’s loves ones that includes physical and psychological abuse.
Slave
Always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others. By measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused pity.
Double Consciousness
a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law, according to which racial segregation did not necessarily violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States that guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all people.
Separate but equal