Race vs Ethnicity
Levels of Racism
Historical Impacts
Systemic Racism
Media and Pop Culture
100

This term refers to groups sharing a common cultural heritage or ancestry.

What is ethnicity?

100

What level of racism is embedded in policies and systems like education or healthcare?

Institutional racism

100

Who is Viola Desmond, and what is she known for?

A Black Canadian who challenged segregation laws in a Nova Scotia theatre by sitting in a whites-only section.

100

What is an example of systemic discrimination in employment?

Hiring bias against names perceived as non-English

100

This is an example of social media’s role in racial activism, including campaigns highlighting police violence.

What is Black Lives Matter?

200

Which statement about race is true:

  • a) It is biologically determined
  • b) It is a social construct based on perceived traits
  • c) It is a recent concept
200

Give an example of interpersonal racism

Hate speech

200

What discriminatory act targeted Chinese immigrants after their work on the Canadian Pacific Railway?

The Chinese Exclusion/Immigration Act/

200

What video game was played in class to learn about disparities when accessing legal aid?

What is Access to Justice?

200

These refer to the misrepresentation of racialized groups in media that perpetuate stereotypes.

What are Patterns of Distortion?

300

This term describes the everyday manifestations of racism that are often brushed aside as small or inconsequential. They are experienced through remarks, questions and actions that are hurtful because they have to do with a person’s membership in a group that’s discriminated against or subject to stereotypes.

What are microaggressions? 

300

This type of racism is embedded in policies and systems like education and healthcare.

What is institutional racism?

300

This activist co-founded Black Lives Matter Toronto and works to address systemic racial violence.

Who is Sandy Hudson?

300

This is a major barrier to fair legal representation.

What is cost?

300

Sharing resources and amplifying voices are forms of this.

What is allyship?

400

This is the term for the process by which racial categories are constructed as real, different, and unequal.

What is racialization?

400

How does systemic racism differ from individual prejudice?

Systemic racism is embedded in systems and structures, while prejudice is a personal belief.

400

Name the journalist and advocate against anti-Black racism in Canada who is known for writing the book "The Skin Were In"

Desmond Cole

400

How does systemic racism manifest in healthcare?

Unequal treatment or lack of culturally appropriate services

400

This term describes how pop culture can either reinforce or challenge racial stereotypes

What is racial representation in media?