Final

Question 1

Dental Hygiene

Answer 1

-Being clean is something that a person actively works on. A clean person brushes their teach each day, a good person does good everyday.
its not impossible to get something stuck in your teeth even if you’re a clean person. Being a clean person is accepting that you can get dirty.
- Author of this is Jay Smooth
- Not everyone is perfect no matter how hard they try. We all make slip ups or “get dirty” and have to fix them or “clean them” in order to work towards a better world.

Question 2

“There’s no place like home”

Answer 2

Home is a place where you feel secure and a sense of belonging Home is a place where you are missed. Home is where you are taken care of and kept safe. Home is a place we crave. It is comfortable and the people that we love are there.

Question 3

Racial Frame (more specifically white racial frame)

Answer 3

a racial frame is an organized set of ideas, stereotypes, and narrative used in order to discriminate. A racial frame can shape how people act. It generates discriminatory actions. White racial framing centers whiteness, white experience, the white gaze. White racial framing is more common in todays society.

Question 4

Intersectionality

Answer 4

the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

Question 5

White privilege

Answer 5

a term used to describe the benefits white people in society generally receive. Often times it is unspoken and often unseen. White people have benefited from federal programs providing critical resources that could be used to accumulate wealth over generations.

Question 6

Anti-blackness

Answer 6

involves prejudice against black people and fabricates ideas associated with blackness. Anti-blackness is a strategic part of white supremacist ideology, uniting people across other differences like class and nationality too. Non-black people of color also benefit from anti-blackness, especially those who can pass for white.

Question 7

Race vs. Ethnicity

Answer 7

Race: A social classification, a product of popular beliefs about human differences that evolved from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries
Ethnicity: is a group socially distinguished or set apart, by others or by itself, primarily on the basis of cultural and/or national-origin characteristics (10).

Question 8

Racial caste system

Answer 8

A type of stratification wherein people of color kept in an inferior position as under castes, kept invisible and out of sight through a maze of rationalized

Question 9

Colonization migration

Answer 9

The conquest and domination of a pre-existing geographical group by outsiders - where people from one land move into and colonize another land

Question 10

Racialization

Answer 10

The process by which those in the dominant white group, especially its elites, have defined and constructed certain groups as being racially inferior or superior for the purposes of societal placement and of group enrichment, segregation, or oppression - The process of ascribing ethnic or racial identities to a relationship, social practice, or group that did not identify as such in order to differentiate them from the dominant group.

Question 11

Latinx vs. Hispanic

Answer 11

Latinx is a gender neutral term often used in instead of Latino or Latina (referencing Latin American cultural or racial identity)
Hispanic refers to “a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race”

Question 12

Color blindness

Answer 12

• a concept describing the ideal society where racial classifications do not limit a person’s opportunities, as well as the kind of deliberately race-neutral governmental policies said to promote the goal of racial equality
• another way that modern racism operates, by treating individuals as if everyone is in a level playing field, without regard to the history of race

Question 13

Manifest destiny

Answer 13

The idea that the United States was entitled to all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The white man proceeded West and took millions of acres from Native Americans. Today Native Americans only control 3% of the land in the US.

Question 14

Forced migration

Answer 14

Forced to migrate at gunpoint -‘Trail of Tears’ in which thousands of Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles were relocated to modern-day Oklahoma.

Question 15

Scientific racism

Answer 15

An ideology that links real or alleged physical characteristics to cultural traits that the dominant group considers undesirable or inferior. Medicine based on race, racial stereotyping in sports/athletic ability

Question 16

White fragility

Answer 16

refers to a mental state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable. This then triggers a range of defensive moves. In America, white people live in a social environment that protects them from race-based stress. As a result, white people get to set expectations for racial comfort which in turn lowers their tolerance for racial-stress.

Question 17

Melting Pot

Answer 17

The view that immigrants to the United States should lose their racial and ethnic identities and mix together in one new (white) American blend.

Question 18

Ethnogenesis

Answer 18

Theory that over time, immigrant groups not only come to share cultural traits with the host/dominant group but also retain many of their own nationality characteristics. - Cuban Americans are still a very divided society within Miami. Because they are predominantly Spanish-speaking , unless they reject their Spanish and cultural heritage, Anglo whites will not see them as white.

Question 19

Nativism

Answer 19

An anti-immigrant ideology that advocates the protection of the native-born inhabitants of a country from immigrants who are seen as threatening or dangerous - examples: literacy tests for citzenship
Nationalism begins to be, in many respects, equated to race.

Question 20

Racial profiling

Answer 20

the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense
leads to police brutality

Question 21

Protestant work ethic

Answer 21

the idea of hard work as the duty of every individual, originally of an individual who seeks to please God - allowed Germans and Dutch to assimilate easily

Question 22

Charlottesville

Answer 22

The Unite the Right rally, also known as the Charlottesville rally, Charlottesville riots, or A12, was a far-right rally that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, from August 11 to 12, 2017. The proximate reason for the Unite the Right event, a demonstration of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, was to “defend” the city’s memorials to Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Earlier in the year, city officials voted to remove the statues, which were erected in the early 20th century as monuments to white supremacy.
RIP Heather Heyer

Question 23

Genealogy

Answer 23

a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor. Research and documentation of existing real world genealogy publishing examples Ex: Family trees, records.

Question 24

Genetic

Answer 24

the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics. properties or features of an organism, characteristic, etc. Ex: Physical features and genetic makeup

Question 25

prejudice

Answer 25

an affective feeling towards a person or group member based solely on that person’s group membership.

Question 26

bias

Answer 26

in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair

Question 27

assimilation

Answer 27

the more or less orderly adaptation of a migrating group to the ways and institutions of an established host group - types include: structural and spatial

Question 28

Naturalization/naturalized citizens

Answer 28

this is how the U.S. government drafted laws. They based it on racial identity. This would then decide who could become U.S. citizens based on fulfilling certain criteria.
NA tribes could be “naturalized” if they abandoned their customs/language.

Question 29

systemic racism

Answer 29

distinguished from racial bigotry by the existence of institutional systemic policies, practices and economic and political structures which place minority racial and ethnic groups at a disadvantage in relation to an institution’s racial or ethnic majority.

Question 30

American exceptionalism

Answer 30

refers to the misguided idea that the United States as a uniquely free nation based on democratic ideals and personal liberty. This is not true for many of the people who live in the US

Question 31

Power-conflict perspectives

Answer 31

Racial & ethnic theories that accent the persisting and great inequalities in the power and resource distributions associated with racial or ethnic subordination in a society
Karl Marx