The emotions of white nationalism
Health and RE
Internalizing and resisting the RE status quo
Emotions and policing
Key terms
100

According to Ahmed, white nationalists justify their hatred of Others by saying it is due to their ______ for their nation.

Love

100

James Marion Sims is still referred to as the father of this medical field, despite his experimentation on enslaved Black women without anesthesia.

Gynecology

100

Hate crimes against Asian Americans are hard to prosecute because there is no symbol denoting Asian Hate, such as this symbol, which indicates a hatred of Jews.

Swastika

100

Claudia Rankine’s book has several poems that include the words “In memory of." These poems are dedicated to Black people who have been killed by this form of violence. 

Police brutality and/or vigilante violence

100

This term is used to describe the hatred of foreigners.

Xenophobia

200

Sara Ahmed developed this theory, which argues that emotions gain value through their circulation in the populace.

Affective economies

200

This US territory, which happens to be where Prof. Rosado was born, was one site where harmful birth control experiments were conducted in the 1950s and 60s

Puerto Rico

200

According to The Hidden Cost of Black Hair, the following product has led to an increase in cancer rates among Black women.

Hair relaxers / perms

200

Police brutality against Black people in the US can be traced back to a period of anti-black terror that featured this public violent act.

Lynching

200

This term, coined by Kevin Quashie, speaks to the interior lives of Black people, including their vulnerabilities, fears, and desires.

Quiet

300

In the documentary Healing from Hate, we learn that many neo-Nazis suffered from this emotional condition while growing up, leading to self-hatred.

Childhood trauma/abuse

300

This 1930s study involved white doctors deliberately withholding treatment from Black male participants, leading to the death of many and an increase in Black people's distrust of medical institutions

Tuskegee Syphilis Study 

300

A Black woman repressing her anger at a colleague due to not wanting to be seen as “the angry Black woman," is an example of _______ the racialized emotional status quo. 

Internalizing

300

In raw numbers (not proportions or rates), this racial group is most affected by police killings.

White people

300

Proponents of this theory argue that immigration is leading to the displacement of the white population (and white voters).

The Great Replacement Theory

400

Among the goals of this movement, which some argue is the equivalent of neo-Nazism, are the desire to establish white supremacy nationwide and turn the US into an ethnostate that only includes white Americans. 

The alt-right movement

400

This "diagnosis," coined by Samuel Cartwright, attempted to label enslaved people's desire to escape as pathological.

Drapetomania

400

According to Lozada et al., these types of environments prompt Black youth to repress their emotions.

Emotionally inhibiting environments

400

Jones argues that there is a psychic chokehold on Black people, particularly in a society that normalizes police and vigilante violence. He labels this phenomenon as Affective _____.

Asphyxia

400

(Prof.) Rosado and Williams use this term to refer to an individual's right to feel their emotions without restriction and to have those emotions recognized and validated by others.

Emotional rights