definitions Flashcards
Segregation
the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
Redlining
in the United states redlining is a racist practice in which services (financial and otherwise) are withheld from people who live in poor neighborhoods ; these people largely belong to racial and ethnic minorities.
Left Wing
the liberal, socialist, or radical section of a political party or system. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for the ¨underdogs¨ in society, which people perceive as a disadvantage relative to others.
The Great Migration
the great migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million black people moved from the American south to northern, Midwestern, and western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.
Stigmatize
To label somebody or something as socially unacceptable.
Self-degradation
Degradation is defined as the state of being lowered down in respect status or condition when a person has became disrespected and is looked down upon
Marginalization
Marginalization involves people being denied degrees of power. Marginalization has the potential to result in severe material deprivation and it its must extremely form can exterminate groups of people who do not have economie social or policated power within a society.
internalized oppression
internalized oppression is the acceptance by members of stigmatized races of nagitive messages about their own abilities and worth characterized by their believing in themselves or others who look like them.
Oppression
oppression is prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control.
systematic oppression
systematic oppression is deinfed as the lack of access to goods services and opportinnities of soiety. it is the unjust exercise of authority and power by ine group over another. it includes imposir one group belief system value and life ways over another group
sterotype
a sterotype a sterotype is a idely held (many people rend to belive and idea) but oversimplifed or defrading imagine or idea of a particular type of person or thing
minstrel shows
minstrel shows were a type of stage entertainment featuring songs dances and formulaic comic routines bases on sterotyped depictions of black americans and typically performed by white actors with blackened faces it developed in the US in the early and mid 19th century and was widely performed untile the mid 20th century but is now regarded as highly offensive.
