3.3: How We Got Here- Lifting “The Veil” - Vocabulary
The Origin of Race in the USA
Many Rivers to Cross
Movie
100
This specific form of slavery in which the children of enslaved people are automatically considered to be slaves themselves. This system contributed to the creation of racial categories in colonial America.
What is Chattel Slavery?
100
Because they had met resistance from native populations, English settlers looked to this group of people as a potential labor source.
Who are enslaved Africans?
100
Henry Louis Gates spends time in Episode 1 in this African country, once a major hub for the slave trade.
What is Sierra Leone?
100
The title character of the movie we are watching, he rose to national prominence as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam, advocating for Black nationalism and pride before later leaving the NOI to pursue a broader human rights agenda. He was assassinated in 1965 at the age of 39, a controversial figure but a celebrated symbol of Black empowerment and racial justice.
Who is Malcolm X?
200
A time where public institutions actively established racial segregation. Despite the promises of the 14th and 15th Amendment that Black people would enjoy the rights and responsibilities of full citizenship, segregation created an explicitly tiered version of citizenship.
What is the Jim Crow Era?
200
Until the 1920s, groups like Celts, Slavs, and Hebrews were all excluded from this one category.
What is white?
200
This is the first British colony in what becomes the United States.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
200
This member of Malcolm X's family was killed when Malcom was just a child.
Who is his father? (Earl Little)
300
The European construction of identity based on skin color that enables privilege and power is called what?
What is whiteness?
300
A system where people—typically the poor or those in debt—contractually agree to work for a certain number of years in exchange for passage to a new land or other benefits, such as room, board, or an apprenticeship.
What is indentured servitude?
300
Historians estimate that the overwhelming majority of the slaves shipped to the New World from Africa were captured and sold by kingdoms of this continent.
What is Africa?
300
This Academy-Award winning actor portrays the title character in the movie we are watching for class.
Who is Denzel Washington?
400
The system that maintains whiteness through laws, beliefs, and practices is called what?
What is white supremacy?
400
Europeans created a construct of race to justify these two systems.
What is slavery and colonization?
400
This is the nickname given to the brutal boat voyage that captured slaves went on across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
400
This was Malcolm X's birth name before he changed his last name to "X" to symbolize the African tribal name lost due to slavery.
What is Malcolm Little?
500
The psychological impact of living in a racist society for African Americans in the years following the end of slavery. Specifically, this term means the way that Black people have to see themselves through the lens of a racist society, in addition to an authentic self-perception and identity.
What is Double Conciousness?
500
This 1790 U.S. law said only “free white persons” could become citizens.
What is the Naturalization Act?
500
This is the name of the first African on record to step foot on the American continent.
Who is Juan Garrido?
500
This Academy-Award winning director is the director of the movie we are watching in class.
Who is Spike Lee?