Chapter 1
One reason to be optimistic about race in the twenty-first century is that laws that legally enforced this practice were ended.
What is racial segregation?
This occurs when a foreign power invades a territory and establishes enduring systems of exploitation and domination over its indigenous populations.
What is colonialism?
This was the most important legislative effort to eradicate discrimination. It applies to all racial and ethnic minority groups, as well as women.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
At the beginning of the film, The Difference Between Us, the students are asked to predict who they will be most like when they compare this.
What are their DNA samples?
This racial ideology occurs when race is not explicitly acknowledged, but individual prejudices, acts of discrimination, and structures of inequality work to benefit whites.
What is Color-Blind Racism ?
This type of racism is defined as the systemic white domination of people of color that is embedded and operating in corporations, universities, legal systems, political bodies, cultural life, and other social collectives.
What is institutional racism?
To exploit the New World, English settlers needed an exploitable people: indentured servants. One reason this population was not enslaved was due to their ability to escape and find refuge.
What are Native Americans?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did several things to protect the rights of all people when voting. These included abolishing poll taxes, making White terrorism illegal, appointing federal examiners and observers, and banning these tests.
What are literacy tests?
Anthropologist Alan Goodman states that the idea of race as being determined by this is a myth, and society must undergo a major paradigm shift.
What is biology?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This term is defined as overlapping systems of advantages and disadvantages that affect people with different positions in society. An example of this would be racial domination, which intersects with gender, class, sexuality, religion, and nation; overlapping systems of advantages and disadvantages
What is intersectionality?
For each enslaved African in the fields, this many others perished en route to the New World.
What is three?
From 1940–1960s, this policy was enforced, which aimed to “assimilate” Native Americans into American society by ending federal recognition of tribes, terminating federal aid and services for people on tribal lands, and withdrawing tribal lands from protected status.
What is the Indian Termination Policy?
Organizers of this fair in 1904 put on display people whom they defined as “other.”
What was the St. Louis World’s Fair?
In 1961, a group of volunteers called this boarded a bus in Washington D.C. in response to a Supreme Court ruling that bus segregation was unconstitutional. The volunteers were attacked and seriously injured.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
The collection of unearned cultural, political, economic, and social advantages and privileges possessed by people of Anglo-European descent or by those who pass as such is called this.
What is white privilege?
Under this rule, the enslaved could not: Marry or meet with a free black, legally buy or sell anything, quarrel with a white person, possess property or money, inherit anything, leave a plantation without permission, testify in court, speak their native language, or learn to read or write.
What was the slave code?
This is a set of processes by which elected politicians redraw and manipulate the borders of political districts to secure a political advantage.
What is Gerrymandering?
This was the name of the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the United States throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What was the Manifest Destiny?
New Racism practices have replaced these laws, which enforced practices in all areas of life, including residential segregation and in businesses.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
There are five types of racial fallacies: tokenistic, fixed, individualistic, ahistorical, and this, which assumes that abolishing racist laws effectively abolishes racism.
What is legalistic fallacy?
The Emancipation Proclamation declared all slaves in states waging war against the Union to be free in 1863. Then, in 1865, this amendment officially banned slavery in the entire United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This type of language is used by politicians to convey hidden messages inaudible to many people but readily “heard” and understood by numerous others, in whom are generated powerful, race-based responses.
What is coded language?
The second episode in this series call this, uncovers the roots of the race concept, including the 19th-century science that legitimized it and the hold it has gained over our minds.
What is “The Story We Tell”?
This type of justification of racism normalizes events and actions that would otherwise be interpreted as racially motivated by saying "That's the way it is."
What is Naturalization?