Social Inequality
Terminology: a concept to describe the ways in which oppressive structural patterns (racism, sexism, homophobia, classism) are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another
What is "Intersectionality"
Terminology: a socially meaningful set of artificial distinctions falsely based on superficial and imagined biological differences
What is "Race"
Terminology: society’s production of unjust outcomes for some racial or ethnic groups; used to justify inequality
What is "Racism"
Terminology: the system of racist segregation and oppression enacted and upheld by white people in South Africa to deny black and other non-white people equal rights
What is "Apartheid"
Terminology: the ability of an individual or group to achieve their will (get what they want) even when facing resistance or opposition.
What is "power"
Terminology: a set of unearned benefits and advantages given to people who fit into a specific social group
What is "Privilege"
Explain the one drop rule
What is "a person with any trace of Black ancestory is categorized as Black"
Terminology: An ethnic identity that is only relevant on specific occasions and does not significantly impact everyday life
What is "symbolic ethnicity"
What group has most of the power in South Africa even though they are the population minority?
What is "white people"
What is "colorblind racism"
Name three examples of what is deemed pretty in the United States
What is "long hair, femininity, Eurocentric features, body size (Kim K), embodiment, clear skin, eye color"
What is an example of the historical construction in the United States according to the video Race: the power of an illusion?
A: Colored people were enslaved because they are “different”
B: Native Americans were savages according to white society
C: Jefferson’s “State of Virginia”
D: All of the above
What is the difference between race and ethnicity?
What is "Ethnicity can be hidden or displayed, racial identities cannot there are almost always on display"
What is the term used to talk about mixed racial people in South Africa?
What are three reasons why it may be difficult to confront your own privilege
What is "denial, uncomfortable to talk about, unaware, hard to admit, believed their privilege is earned, accountability..."
What type of people on average receive more social resources than others?
What is "People perceived as attractive"
What are the three reasons that explain why race is socially constructed?
What is
1. Race isn't based on biology
2. Racial categories change over time
3. Racial categories never have firm boundaries
The five forms of racism
What is "individual (overt, microaggressions), colorblind, institutional, structural, and systemic"
Prohibitions of mixed marriages, bans on racial mixings at events and gatherings, and controlling movement of certain people were all part of what act made in 1950?
What is "The Population Regulation Act"
Which of the racial demographics in South Africa is the 2nd largest in population?
What is "coloured"
The preferred terminology for classifying groups of countries around the world
What is "Global North and Global South"
Give an example of the very real effects of social construction in society
What is "our view on gender..., what we think of as attractive..., social inequalities..."
The difference between prejudice and discrimination
What is "prejudice is based on attitudinal bias while discrimination is based on behavior or treatment"
Explain what Trevor Noah means when he says "there's
something liberating about fighting an obvious enemy as opposed to one that you have to prove exists."
What is "racism in the U.S. versus South Africa..., gathering support, system of gaslighting..., etc."
Two example of systemic racism
What is
More frequent and severe punishment of black students.
School dress codes that discriminate against popular African American hairstyles.
Professions screening out applicants with “black sounding” names
-a diverse assortment of racial practices; encompassing daily micro aggressions, deep seated inequalities, historical inequalities, and anti-black ideologies.