Identity Basics
Race, ethnicity, gender, class, and religion often referred to as in shaping identity?
What is Influences of Identity?
The idea that multiple identities (race, gender, class, etc.) overlap and shape experiences of oppression or privilege
What is intersectionality?
How Africans were primarily brought to the Americas?
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Mexican American families were displaced; it is now the site of Dodger Stadium
What is the Chavez Ravine?
When and where was the first Ethnic Studies course created?
What is 1968 at San Francisco State University ?
A shared cultural identity based on language, traditions, and ancestry
What is ethnicity?
Coined the term intersectionality?
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw
These assimilated Indigenous children into white American culture by removing their language and traditions
What are Indian boarding schools?
They provided jobs but often exploited workers with low wages and poor conditions
How did labor systems like the Bracero Program impact workers?
Which movement helped create Ethnic Studies programs?
What is the Third World Liberation Front Strike?
Taking action to create social or political change
What is activism?
A U.S.-Mexico program (1942–1964) that brought Mexican laborers to work temporarily in the U.S.
What is the Bracero Program?
It banned Chinese immigration and limited rights of Chinese immigrants already in the U.S.
What was the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act?
To avoid discrimination and increase opportunities in education or jobs, immigrants...
What is changing or American-izing your name?
Challenges or changes the systems
What is resistance?
The separation of people based on race or ethnicity
What is segregation?
Fear, prejudice, or discrimination against Muslims or Islam
What is Islamophobia?
It created economic wealth for the U.S. and systemic racial inequality
What is slavery?
Communities that provide cultural support, safety, jobs, language familiarity, and community networks
What are ethnic enclaves?
They created community programs like free breakfast for children and health clinics, while also advocating for Black self-determination, police accountability, and Ethnic Studies.
What is the Black Panther Party?
Taking elements of another culture without understanding or respecting its meaning
What is cultural appropriation?
A discriminatory practice where services (like loans) were denied to residents in certain (often minority) neighborhoods
What is redlining?
The stereotype that some minority groups are “more successful,” which ignores inequality and divides communities of color
What is the Model Minority Myth and why is it harmful?
It limits access to housing, education, and wealth-building in marginalized communities.
What is redlining?
It established the right of students to political expression on campus, inspiring later movements like anti-Vietnam War protests and Ethnic Studies student strikes.
What is the UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement?