final Flashcards

(33 cards)

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racialism

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belief in racial superiority

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institutionalized racism (systemic racism)

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the incorporation of racist policies in the institutions by which a society opperates

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Internalized racism

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psychological programming that makes POC believe in white superiority

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intra-racial racism

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the discrimination of different features within one culture (AA favoring lighter skinned people over those with traditionally more African features

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double consciousness (double vision)

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belonging to two conflicting cultures (mixed people)

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everyday racism

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less visible form of racism, can be a joke or a glance, not always conscious

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white privilege

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a collection of advantages that white people have in a white dom. culture

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interest convergence (material determinism)

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dom. culture creating racist policies that they said were to benefit all but are really in the benefit of the dom. culture

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race as a social construct

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the construction of the idea that races are so different is really not accurate-the terms black and white exclude all other people

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differential racialization

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how the dom. culture refers to the non-dom. culture in order to benefit themselves-a manipulation for how the dom. culture wants to view the non-dom. culture

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intersectionality

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people have complex identities-knowing that there are many bases on which someone could be discriminated against

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voice of color

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the concept that writers of color are deemed to be more fit than white writers to write/speak on racism

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racial idealism

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racial equality can be achieved by changing peoples racist attitudes

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racial realism

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racial equality will never be achieved in the US so AA should stop believing it will

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15
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orality

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the spoked qualities of a language

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unhomliness

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to feel not at home even in your home because you are not at home in your identity

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mimicry

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the colonized immitating their colonizers

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othering

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the practice of judging all who are different as less than fully human

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colonist ideology

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based on the colonizers assumption of their own superiority which they contrasted with the alleged inferiority of native peoples

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eurocentrism (Eurocentric universalism)

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the use of European culture as a standard of perfection

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metropolitan

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the colonizers believed that only their own anglo-europeans culture was civilized and sophisticated

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nativism

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the emphasis on indigenous culture-rejection of European culture

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hybridity

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productive force of shrinking a culture

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double colonization

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similar to intersectionality-belonging to two groups that are both colonized

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sub-altern
people of inferior status
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savage other
the evil other
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exotic other
an other that is considered beautiful or royal
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diaspora
a group of people separated from their homeland, but are together somewhere else
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cultural imperialism (neocolonialism)
the exploitation of cheap labor available in developing countries
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differance
to differ
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chain of signifiers
sign=signifier+signifier+......dissemination of meaning
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instability of meaning
there is not just one perfect meaning to something
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binary oppositions
objective/subjective opposite terms that are compared