Johnson Ch. 4 & 5
What does discrimination help to maintain?
Systems of Privilege
What board game is used as an example of a social system throughout chapter 6?
Monopoly
What is the most common and effective defense of privilage?
Blaming the vicitim
Restorative justice programs have begun to be adopted by inner city high schools. What type of violence has been diminished by this approach?
Gang Violence
Race
What is a sustainable way for privileged groups to enact change?
Ownership
What kind of thinking makes us blind to the very existence of privilege?
Individualistic
What is the one way that people that hold privilage can get off the hook?
By getting on the hook
What is the goal of Restorative Justice?
To restore relationships between the victim and the offender and end violence.
What is something that Aisha wanted to do because of racism in London?
Change her name
What are the three key aspects of privilege?
Inclusion
Acceptance
Being seen
People of color often experience being marked as outsiders, to the extent that many navigate the social world by consciously changing how they talk from one situation to another. What phenomenon defines this navigation of the social word?
Code Switching
What is a claim that is commonly used as an excuse for verbal behavior that caused harm?
"It's Just a joke"
While Restorative Justice's main goal is to restore relationships between victims and offenders as well as end violence. What does Restorative Justice strive to understand?
Crime in its larger context. It challenges us to examine the roots of crime. Practitioners assume that crime originates in social conditions, and recognize that offenders themselves have often suffered harm. Therefore, communities must take responsibility for those conditions that contribute to crime and work to promote healing, which is crucial for both victims and offenders.
What was Aisha forced to do depending on where she was living?
Blend her identities
Why are images of healing problematic?
Implies that the issue is an emotional one
Another way of denying the complexity of the issues and replacing it with wishful thinking that it will go away
How is power seen in a patriarchy?
Power is gendered through its cultural association with men and manhood.
Why is it that all of us should be on the "hook" everyday?
Because there is no way to avoid being part of the problem, in spite of the paths of least resistance that may allow us to imagine we are not.
Restorative justice can be vital in responding to severe human rights violations or genocide. What three steps are thought to be required for true healing to occur?
Taking intersectionality into account what is the most important stereotype that black women face in relation to being in greater danger of police violence?
Living in a black body
What is the tin cup approach?
A strategy for enacting change in getting privileged groups to change their perceptions by appealing to their sense of decency, fairness, and good will toward the less fortunate
What are the three key features of systems organized around privilege?
They are dominated privileged groups.
Identified with privileged groups.
Centered on privilege groups
In relation to "The multiple ways to minimize and deny privilege and racism" What is an example of "calling it something else"?
Holding the view point that segregated schools are about neighborhoods and not race
What is an international level example of restorative justice being successfully used?
South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, used restorative justice practices to bring blacks and whites together to account for the crimes of the apartheid era and move beyond them to a new, bi-racial South Africa.
What is Intersectionality?
The idea that social categorizations (race, class, gender, etc.) surrounding individuals are all interconnected, and the discrimination and disadvantage that certain people face can happen on the basis of several different factors