Race and Biology
All humans originated in what is now this continent.
What is Africa?
This is a difference in data that shows that somethig is unfair.
What is a disparity?
This group was put in prison camps during WWII, despite no evidence that they had comitted any crime.
Who were the Japanese Americans?
This began in 2013 after the murder of Trayvon Martin.
What is Black Lives Matter?
This is the term used to describe the segregation laws that discriminated against Black Americans until 1964.
What were Jim Crow laws?
This is the term for something that is created by humans, such as race.
What is a social construct?
This is the term that refers to racial injustice that is found in our institutions.
What is systemic racism?
Many of the things the U.S. Government did to Indigenous people were examples of this.
What is genocide?
This is the term for peaceful actions designed to force a reaction or response.
What is nonviolent direct action?
This is the word for a person whose ancestors were here before colonization.
What is indigenous?
(What is Native American?)
You cannot determine a person's race by testing this.
What is DNA?
Redlining and other housing discrimination led to a large __________________, which continues to exist today.
What is a racial wealth gap?
This Reconstruction Amendment made all people born in the U.S. citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Hundreds of children and teens marched in this city in 1963.
What was Birmingham?
This was the farming system that kept many formerly enslaved people in debt after slavery was ended.
What was sharecropping?
A person who is identified as mestizo in Guatemala would likely be identified as this race in the United States.
What is Latino or Hispanic?
In Vermont, the rate of this is much higher for students of color.
What is supension?
During Reconstruction, most formerly enslaved people wanted this, which would allow them to have financial independence.
What is land?
Fred Korematsu took his case here to challenge the incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Where is the Supreme Court?
This term means that an occurence does not match a group's share of the population. It is unfair or out of balance.
What is disporportionate?
There is this much more genetic variation between two fruit flies than between two humans.
What is 10 times?
White Americans are much more likely to be here while awaiting trial than Black Americans are.
Where is home?
What was the Great Depression?
This term refers to breaking an unjust law as a form of protest.
What is civil disobedience?
This is a shared culture or ancestry. It is different from race.
What is ethnicity?