Gender & Race
This masculine is signifies strength and dominance when presented in a male gendered context, but denotes danger in men assigned as Black or of African descent
What is aggression
This stereotype describes Black men as rapacious toward white women and oversexual. It has origins in slavery and was used as reason to lynch Black men during the Nadir era?
What is the Black Brute
Who was George Stinney
A Black boy sentenced to death by the State of SC in 1944 after being accused of the death of two white girls. He is the youngest person to be executed following a death sentence.
This institution is responsible for the criminalization of Black children and the school-to-prison pipeline
What is the American education system?
This phenomenon inspired the title of this Jeopardy, it is a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw describing the occurrence by which an individual has multiple societal identities
What is intersectionality
What is a social construct
A societal marker or category developed by society not based on biology. Though it is not a biological aspect of one's existence, it still has real life implications
This Black male stereotype reflects a man who exhibits behaviors or spews rhetoric to model standards that appeal to the white collective gaze; (ie. behaviors that promote the idea of civility and staying in one’s place - respectability politics).
What is an Uncle Tom
This phenomenon has resulted in the over policing of Black communities as well as disproportionate imprisonment of people
What is mass incarceration
This tends to foster high recidivism rate among formerly incarcerated peoples
What are violations of probation
This serves as a sanctuary for heterosexual Black men looking to have their hair done
What is the Black barbershop
Name an expectation of manhood or boyhood
what is: heteronormativity, apathy, violence, fitness/athleticism, interest in guns, propensity for STEM, being muscular, etc.
This Black male stereotype promotes the idea that Black men are have a biological propensity to succeed in sports and other arenas of fitness. It has origins in racist science which argues that Black people have a greater threshold for pain than other racial groups.
What is the Black male athlete?
Between 2004 and 2014, about how much money was awarded to victims as a result of police misconduct in the city of Chicago, IL alone?
What is more than $500 million
This scarlet letter prevents people from obtaining many career and education opportunities following a criminal conviction.
What is a felony
Who is the leading attorney and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)? He is the Author of Just Mercy (2014)
How does Baratunde Thurston breakdown headlines about anti-Black violence via police dispatch and phone calls?
subject -> action -> target -> activity
This Black Male Stereotype describes Black men as single with a plethora of sexual or romantic interests
What is a playa/er or Black Bachelor
At what rate a Black males more likely to be stopped by police without reason in comparison to their female counterparts?
What is 2x more likely
How many Black men are expected to be incarcerated at some point in their lives?
1 out of 3
This Black male stereotype depicts Black fathers as emotionally, financially, and physically absent to their children
What is the deadbeat dad?
What percentage of Black men over the age of 25 have a bachelors degree or higher?
What 28%
This stereotype describes Black, queer men who present themselves in a (hyper)masculine manner often to hide their queer identity
What is trade?
This Californian legal provision mandates a 25-life sentence after a third criminal offence
What is the three-strikes law
Height, a trait celebrated amongst men in regard to desirability, influences expectations of criminality amongst Black men, how?
The taller a Black man is, the more intimidating and violent he is expected to be
This UConn learning Community is geared toward Black male students
What is ScHOLA²RS House?