family and relationships Flashcards
what is the pathological family?
a societal problem wherein racial inequality is reframed as stemming from the dysfunctional family rather than systemic racial domination
what is the Moynihan report?
-argued that most problems facing african americans are caused by single-mother black families
what are anti miscegenation laws?
laws that criminalized interracial marriage and sex
-white men rarely punished
what occured in Loving v. Virginia (1967)?
supreme court ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional because they violate the 14th amendment’s equal protection clause
what are mississippi appendectomies?
the routine, involuntary, removal of uteruses from women of color during Jim Crow
- fannie lou hamer publicly spoke out against the procedure after it happened to her
what is the erotic marketplace?
the ways in which people are organized and ordered according to their perceived sexual desirability
what is sexual racism?
stated preference for phenotypically white people or people who have features commonly associated with white people
what is racial fetishism?
making someone an object of sexual desire based solely on their racial identity; usually rooted in stereotypes and objectification
what is unique about the whitney plantation?
it was one of the only plantations where the central focus was the experience of those who were enslaved instead of the plantation owner or machinery
what is the main finding in baker and oconnel?
states that had a higher concentration of enslaved people in 1860 have larger racial disparities and poverty among married w/children households now
what did rudder say about compatibility match percentages by race?
when okcupid decides suggestions for people, there’s roughly the same percentage of compatibility between racial groups
