English 3150 Critical Theory Today Ch. 11

Question 1

Racialism

Answer 1

Belief in racial superiority, inferiority, and purity based on the conviction that moral and intellectual characteristics, just like physical characteristics, are biological properties that differentiate the races.

Question 2

Racism

Answer 2

Refers to the unequal power relations that grow from the sociopolitical domination of one race by another and that result in systematic discriminatory practices

Question 3

Institutionalized Racism

Answer 3

Incorporation of racist policies and practices in the institutions by which a society operates: for example, education; federal, state, and local governments; the law, health care, and the corporate world.

Question 4

Eurocentric

Answer 4

Reflect European experience and conform to the style and subject matter of the European Literary tradition.

Question 5

Eurocentrism

Answer 5

Belief that European culture is vastly superior to all others.

Question 6

Internalized Racism

Answer 6

Results from the psychological programming by which a racist society indoctri- nates people of color to believe in white superiority.

Question 7

Intra-racial racism

Answer 7

Discrimination within the black community against those with darker skin and more African features.

Question 8

Double consciousness or double vision

Answer 8

Awareness of belonging to two conflicting cultures: the African culture, which grew from African roots and was transformed by its own unique history on American soil, and the European culture imposed by white America.

Question 9

Afro-American Critics

Answer 9

Analyze the ways in which literary texts undermine or reinforce the racist ide- ologies that have kept black Americans politically oppressed and economically disadvantaged.

Question 10

Afrocentricity

Answer 10

The primacy of their relationship to African history and culture—must not be overlooked when we interpret them or we risk deforming African American literature in very important ways.

Question 11

Underground Racisms

Answer 11

1. Everyday racism is a common, ordinary experience for people of color in the United States.
2. Racism is largely the result of interest convergence, sometimes referred to as material determinism.
3. Race is socially constructed.
4. Racism often takes the form of differential racialization.
5. Everyone’s identity is a product of intersectionality.
6. The experiences of racial minorities have given them what might be
   called a unique voice of color.