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The Constitution
Blackness & Whiteness 1
Blackness & Whiteness 2
Understanding Oppression
Manifest Destiny and the Trail of Tears
100
This word is never mentioned in the Constitution.
What is slave?
100
The idea that anyone with any amount of black blood is black.
What is the One Drop Rule?
100
The two groups that exemplify whiteness as an expansive concept.
What is the Irish and the Jews?
100
These groups were excluded from the making of the Constitution.
What are people of color and women?
100
This president signed the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
This part of the Constitution required people to return escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Clause?
200
Two concepts that are diametrically opposed.
What are blackness and whiteness?
200
The name of Eastern European Jews' culture and language.
What is Yiddish?
200
An action aimed at destroying wholly or partially a national, racial, or religious group or society
What is genocide?
200
The president who continued Jackson's Indian Removal policies.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
300
Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution is also known as this.
What is the 3/5th Compromise?
300
This group was called "Smoked Irish."
Who are Black people?
300
This group was called "N-words turned inside out"
Who are the Irish?
300
Joel Kovel described this as, "...[D]irect, physical oppression and sexual obsession, belongs to the Old South, especially in the years following slavery"
What is dominative racism?
300
The estimated number of Cherokee deaths on the Trail of Tears.
What is 4,000?
400
The percentage of the U.S. population that were slaves when the Constitution was adopted
What is twenty percent?
400
The name of W.E.B. DuBois' magnum opus.
What is Black Reconstruction in America
400
The two foundations to whiteness.
What is white skinned privilege and anti-black racism?
400
Joel Kovel described this as, "The racism of coldness and the fantasy of dirt, belongs to the bourgeois life, proper, being that form of racism characteristic of the North, stable urban zones of segregation, and suburbs."
What is aversive racism?
400
The approximate U.S. population in 1830.
What is 13 million?
500
The percent of Constitutional Convention members who had slaves
What is forty percent?
500
“A political, economic, and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources, conscious and unconscious ideas of white domination and non-white subordination are daily reenacted across a broad array of institutions and social settings.”
What is White Supremacy?
500
The definition of "transubstantiation."
What is "The transformation of the substance of one's class or ethnic being"?
500
Joel Kovel described this as, "The racism of technocracy, i.e., one without psychological mediation as such, in which racist oppression is carried out directly through economic and technocratic means."
What is metaracism?
500
The person who said this: "Our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions."
Who is John Sullivan?