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| Physical characteristics that put a person in a distinct group |
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| Social Constructed concept |
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-the reminants of tribal language
-verb tense is habitual ex: "he be walking"
-this is treated as ignorance even though it is just left over from slave culture |
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| Stages of Racial Identity |
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Biased against people of color based upon media sterotypes. Black= dangerous, degenerate
STAGE 2:
Silent whites but learn alot
STAGE 3:
Blame racism on the victims.
BLACKS:
STAGE 1: Belive white really are better than blacks |
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refers to a minority whose members acheive a higher degree of success than the population average.
-One minority acheiveing more than the other
*Race Book |
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| Five fallacies about racism |
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1)Individual Fallacy
-Idea that racism is assumed to be about ideas and prejudices aka. mean
2) Legalistic Fallacy
-assumption that abolishing racist laws automatically gets rid of racism
3)Tokenistic Fallacy
-assumption that presence of pple of color in power position is evidence of end of racism aka: Obama
4) Ahistorical Fallacy
-Argues that history is unimportant
5) Fixed Fallacy
-idea that racism is fixed and unchanging |
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| shared ideas, attitudes and beliefs attached to a race that give automatic negative feelings or opinions about non whites |
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| shared ideas, attitudes and beliefs attached to a race that give automatic negative feelings or opinions about non whites |
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| idea that if inequalities exist its not because of race |
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| when a foreign power invades a territory establishes enduring system of exploitation of the indigenous people |
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| sexual exploitation of slave women |
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-slave women lost their sexual freedom and rights
-were often raped by masters
-justified by saying the women were immoral |
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Set of laws designed to de humanize slaves
I.E: couldnt testify in court
-couldnt strike a white person
-not protected by laws |
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Involved the slaves breaking equipment
working slowly and running away |
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| This era was after the northern troops moved out of the south (1877) |
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| Group of people who share certain cultural characteristics ie: language |
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-the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, -all other groups are measured in relation to one's own
White Americans tend to view this about our culture.
-Blacks not conforming means they are dumb or rebellious |
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-viewing the world from a european perspective
-Implies that European culture is the elite |
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| -used to describe a person with 1/4 black and 3/4 white |
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| -Person with 1 black and 1 white parent |
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| the study of how race, gender, ect affects social inequality and oppression within a society |
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A justification used by whites to take over
-they have god given right to own anything |
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| seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial |
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-created after the civil war to help blacks get on their feet
-helped with education, homes, land
-underfunded and stopped within a few years |
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-Example of white opposition after the civil war
- you could vote if your grandfather could |
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| Student non violent coordinating committee |
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long term social movement
-very organized |
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1961
-done by SNCC & CORE
- took mass transit across state lines
-whites went to black section and blacks went to white section |
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-Central high school
-Nince black high schoolers
-1st attempted at integrating schools |
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pushed indian westward to make more room for incoming europeans
-gave indians certain tracks of land )reservations)
-Response to the "indian problem" |
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1964
-SNCC with college aged volunteers blakc and white
-went to MISS to register voters, build freedom schools
-meant to draw attention to MISS |
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| a psuedoscience based upon measurements of the human skull -used to prove that whites were genetically superior to blacks |
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| practices aimed at improving the genetic composition |
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-a popular belief about specific social groups or types of individuals
- standardized and simplified conceptions of groups based on some prior assumptions |
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| the confluist between whites' egalitarian values and their negative opinions about a certain race. |
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When a group starts to believe the stereotypes about themselves
ex: Black believe the are stupid |
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| Chicano activist group involved in community organization educational equality |
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created united farm workers (UFW)
-advocated for non-violent tactics |
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| Peggy McIntosh--conffered dominance |
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white privilege is protected by being denied
-people of dominant race don't recognize their privilege.
-Only dominant when compared to the non dominant party |
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-There is no one right way
-evalutae your situation and environment and decide what needs to be done
-you must listen to people of color and support the actions they take |
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