The Idea of Race
This is the belief that people are naturally separated into races, making one race inherently superior to others.
What is a segregationist?
The author of the Declaration who famously wrote that "all men are created equal."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The general term for a person who believes Black people are biologically inferior but can be uplifted if they change their behavior.
What is an assimilationist?
This type of person believes that all people are equal and should be treated equally.
What is an antiracist?
To try and make a group of people fit in with the majority is to ______ them.
What is assimilate them?
This view believes all races are equal, but that Black people must change their behavior or culture to fit into White society.
What is an assimilationist?
The key contradiction in the Declaration of Independence that the book focuses on.
What is declaring all men equal while owning enslaved people?
The Assimilationists hoped that by becoming more 'civilized,' Black Americans would become indistinguishable from whites and avoid this harsh system.
What is slavery (or oppression)?
This type of person did not exist at the time of the Declaration, according to the book.
What is an antiracist?
Jefferson's belief about Black people's intelligence is called a ______ thought.
What is a racist thought?
A person with this view supports policies that actively promote racial equality and works to dismantle racist structures.
What is an anti-racist?
The Virginia plantation where Thomas Jefferson enslaved people.
What is Monticello?
The important piece of paper that declared America free from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is the powerful and unfair advantage one group has over another.
What is Privilege?
The authors' main goal is to help you learn how to be an ______ person.
What is an antiracist person?
The racist idea that African people were descended from this biblical character whose descendants were supposedly cursed to be slaves.
What is the Curse of Ham?
Jefferson's belief that Black people were inferior and needed to be controlled with harsh laws is an example of this kind of thinking.
What is racist thinking?
Jefferson kept this practice going while writing the Declaration.
What is slavery?
According to the authors, being an antiracist means actively trying to make this happen.
What is racial equality?
When Jefferson wrote about liberty, he failed to include the ______ of the enslaved people he owned.
What is freedom (or emancipation)?
The authors' main goal in Stamped Remix is to help the reader understand these three types of people.
What are the Racist, the Assimilationist, and the Antiracist?
Where Jefferson believed that Black Americans should be sent after emancipation, because he thought they could not live peacefully with whites.
What is Africa?
The city where the Declaration was debated and finally signed.
What is Philadelphia?
The belief that different races are arranged in a ladder, with white people at the top.
What is racial hierarchy?
An important person in the Declaration's history, ______ was both an assimilationist and a racist at the same time.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?