A Raisin in the Sun Essential Vocab

Question 1

Segregation:

Answer 1

The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.

Question 2

Redlining

Answer 2

In the United States, redlining is a discriminatory practice in which services are withheld from potential customers who reside in neighborhoods classified as ‘hazardous’ to investment; these residents largely belong to racial and ethnic minorities

Question 3

Left Wing

Answer 3

Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in society whom its adherents perceive as disadvantaged relative to others as well as a belief that there are inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished

Question 4

The Great Migration

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Stigmatize

Answer 5

To label somebody or something as socially unacceptable

Question 6

Self-degradation

Answer 6

looking down upon one’s self (self-hate)

Question 7

Marginalization

Answer 7

Marginalization involves people being denied degrees of power. Marginalization has the potential to result in severe material deprivation, and in its most extreme form can exterminate groups of people who do not have economic, social or political power within a society.

Question 8

Oppression

Answer 8

is prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control.

Question 9

Internalized Oppression

Answer 9

is the acceptance by members of stigmatized races of negative messages about their own abilities and worth, characterized by their not believing in themselves or others who look like them.

Question 10

Systematic Oppression

Answer 10

is defined as the lack of access to goods, services, and opportunities of society. It is the unjust exercise of authority and power by one group over another. It includes imposing one group’s belief system, values and life ways over another group.

Question 11

Stereotype

Answer 11

is a widely held (many people tend to believe an idea) but oversimplified or degrading image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Question 12

Minstrel Shows

Answer 12

were a type of stage entertainment featuring songs, dances, and formulaic comic routines based on stereotyped 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 until the mid 20th century but is now regarded as highly offensive.