Understanding Oppression | The Law | The Constitution | Systems of Oppression | Submission or Resistance? |
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What is oppression?
imposition of one group’s interests on another that involves coercion, exploitation, and/or unjust subjugation
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What is affirmative action?
refers to a policy or set of policies designed to provide historically disadvantaged groups greater opportunities
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What is three-fifths clause?
The section of the constitution that defined a black person as a fraction of a white person
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What is genocide?
action aimed at destroying wholly or partially a national, racial, or religious group or society (physically, psychologically, institutionally)
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What is W.E.B. Dubois?
Said that the problem of the 20th century is “the color line”
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What is race?
a culturally structured, systematic way of looking at, perceiving, and interpreting various world realities – a cosmological ordering system that divides the world’s people’s into what are thought to be biologically discrete and exclusive groups
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What is Jim Crow/segregation?
A system of laws that discriminated against African Americans
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What is the one-drop rule?
Assumption that you were black if you had even a small amount of “black blood”
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What is white privilege?
_________ is a set of privileges bestowed upon people of European descent based on skin tone
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What is assimilation?
Immigrant group adaptation to a host society or culture
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What is de facto racism?
Racism that is upheld by custom and culture, rather than law
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What is Brown v. Board of Education?
the 1954 court case which desegregated public places
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What is 14th Amendment?
This amendment ensured equal protection for all
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What is racism, classism, sexism?
Three major forms of oppression ending in "ism" (hint: r____, c____, s_____)
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What is the model minority?
________ refers to a minority group that most successfully assimilates to dominant white culture
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What is Ethnocentrism?
The practice of centering or focusing discussion on one's own group/culture; belief in the superiority of one’s own group/culture over all others
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What is de jure racism?
Racism that is upheld by law, rather than custom and culture
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What is 13th Amendment?
This amendment banned slavery, except in as a punishment for a crime
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What is blackness?
is a set of disadvantages and discrimination bestowed upon people of African descent based on skin tone
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1876
The first civil rights movement driven by Charles Sumner and Ben Butler occurred in
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What is white racial frame?
stereotypes, images, narratives, emotions, discriminatory inclinations that together make up a worldview rationalizing racial oppression
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What is 1883?
The Supreme Court nullified the first civil rights doctrine in
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What is 15th Amendment?
This amendment guaranteed voting rights for black men
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What is capitalism?
An economic system based on the idea of a free market that places the bourgeoisie (rich) at the top of the hierarchy and the proletariat (poor) at the bottom
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What is the American Dream?
The strategic marketing plan that has lured millions of immigrants to the United States with hope of economic opportunity
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