Aaron Samuels
Privilege
White Supremacy
100
A Jewish song leader
What is a cantor?
100

Broader and sometimes more subtle than individual discrimination, this kind of discrimination results from society operating in ways that allow certain groups to receive better treatment and opportunities than other groups.

What is institutional discrimination?
100

Fairly stable social arrangements and practices through which collective actions are taken. Such as the U.S. include the legal, educational, health care, social service, government, media and criminal justice systems.

What are institutions?
200
The secret formula to anything and everything cool: ______ is the most badass chemical on the planet!
What is melanin?
200

-Assume racism is ever-present

-Observe how racism is denied, minimized and/or justified

-Learn the evolution of white supremacy

-Understand how race intersects with other social structures

-Distinguish phenotype and deeds 

-Activism: organize, educate, and agitate 

These are _____ strategies.

What are anti-racism strategies?
200

Attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and assumptions about a target group that are widespread AND socially sanctioned. They support the maintenance of institutionalized oppression by seemingly validating misinformation or beliefs.

What are stereotypes?
300
This object "slapped the island off my father's tongue"


and

"polished my father until the neighborhood 

could see its reflection in his black shining skin"

What is a pumice stone?
300
This form of racism operates by ignoring race and ethnicity under the guise of "equal treatment" 
What is colorblind racism?
300

This category has been normalized and is used as the standard of conduct. As a culture, it perpetuates the idea that minorities deserve to be minorities because of their race. The law is the main tool of investing in and ensuring resources to this category and systematically limits various racial groups from accessing the resources at an equal rate.

What is Whiteness?
400
Characterized by Nissan Muranos, fancy soccer cleats, and groomed grass, this Cranston high school bused in students from the poor side of town.
What is Cranston West?
400

Judging all other cultures and societies according to the standards of the society or culture that one belongs to. The belief that one’s culture is superior and that other ethnic groups or nations are inferior. 

What is ethnocentrism?
400

This system commodifies workers to sell in the labor market while the profits of one’s labor are taken by someone else. This system is kept via racial hierarchy.

What is capitalism?
500
The name assigned to boys who step on purple tiles in elementary school.
What is gay?
500

A social construct and socially divisive force, this concept is understood as a group of people defined by physical characteristics such as skin color that differentiate members from other groups on that basis.

What is race?
500

This country is not at war, this country *is* war. For the system of white supremacy to stay in place, this country must always be war.

What is the United States?