A Raisin In The Sun - Essential Vocabulary Flashcards
Segregation -
The separation of different racial groups in a country, city, or community.
Redlining -
If you are a person of color, what you own is of less value than someone who isn’t a person of color.
Left Wing -
Doing things differently or doing things that not everybody believed in. Typically have a concern for people in the world who are considered underdogs.
The Great Migration -
When black people migrated from the south to the north, west, and Midwest. They left to look for better lives and jobs, but it didn’t go so well.
Stigmatize -
To label somebody or something as socially unacceptable.
Self-degradation -
The state of being lowered down in respect, status or condition. When a person has become disrespectful and is looked down upon, this is an example of degradation. Self- degradation is looking down on oneself. ( Self hate ).
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.
Oppression -
A prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control.
Internalized Oppression -
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.
Systematic Oppression -
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.
Stereotype -
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.
Minstrel Shows -
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 20th century but is now regarded as highly offensive.
