Midterm Flashcards
Racism
Any action or attitude that subordinates an individual or group based race
Prejudice plus power
Racial inequity
Structural racism
The normalization and legitimization of a system that’s advantage whites while adverse outcomes for poc
White supremacy
System of exploration and oppression of people of color by whites for the purpose of maintaining and defending a system of wealth, power and privilege
Diversity v. Equity
D: Acknowledge and appreciation of people of different racial backgrounds
E: equal distribution of resources And opportunities for people regardless of racial background
OMI AND WINAT
Example that race is not biological
Susie Phipps
Before race identified people, what did?
Religion
Christian poc were uncivilized
To maintain white supremacy the us did what?
Perceived racial differences
Racial democracy
Everyone gets a say
How long was slavery and when did it begin
250 years 1619
Capitalism
Everything you own (wealth)centers you higher or a little in society
U.S capitalism organized by racial hierarchy
Peoples labor treated differently
Treatment is dependent on race
Historically blackness equals slavable
Stereotypes of black sexuality
Savage Larger genetalia Over hyper sexualized Uninhabited wild Promiscuous No partnership/ monogamy
Anti-miscegenation laws
Banned interracial marriage and established white supremacy
Race
A political construction created to concentrate power with white people Ana legitimize dominance over non white people
Institutional racism
Policies:laws customs and practices that create advantages for elites and oppression AND DISADVANTAGES for POC
Active racism
Blatant intentional acts of racial bigotry and discriminate
Example: racial slurs or acts of violence
Passive racism
Subtle often unintentional acts that do not challenge racial inequalities and actions
Laughing st s racist joke or accepting practices of POC as subordinate
Active anti racism
Intentional efforts to challenge and act against racial bigotry and discrimination
Colorblind racism
The racial ideology that maintains the racial structure of white supremacy for those racialized as white
What are the four central frames
Minimization
Naturalization
Cultural racism
Abstract liberalism
Abstract liberalism
Can be identified as the use of liberal ideas
Individual choices perceived as justification explanation for racial disparities such as segregation
Ignores institutions practices that promote segregation
Ignores that people do not start equal
Cultural racism
Culturally based reassuring by race/stereotypes
Naturalization
Racialized phenomena are seen as natural occurrences
Minimization
Promotes the idea that racism is small no longer a concern