final Flashcards
racialism
belief in racial superiority
institutionalized racism (systemic racism)
the incorporation of racist policies in the institutions by which a society opperates
Internalized racism
psychological programming that makes POC believe in white superiority
intra-racial racism
the discrimination of different features within one culture (AA favoring lighter skinned people over those with traditionally more African features
double consciousness (double vision)
belonging to two conflicting cultures (mixed people)
everyday racism
less visible form of racism, can be a joke or a glance, not always conscious
white privilege
a collection of advantages that white people have in a white dom. culture
interest convergence (material determinism)
dom. culture creating racist policies that they said were to benefit all but are really in the benefit of the dom. culture
race as a social construct
the construction of the idea that races are so different is really not accurate-the terms black and white exclude all other people
differential racialization
how the dom. culture refers to the non-dom. culture in order to benefit themselves-a manipulation for how the dom. culture wants to view the non-dom. culture
intersectionality
people have complex identities-knowing that there are many bases on which someone could be discriminated against
voice of color
the concept that writers of color are deemed to be more fit than white writers to write/speak on racism
racial idealism
racial equality can be achieved by changing peoples racist attitudes
racial realism
racial equality will never be achieved in the US so AA should stop believing it will
orality
the spoked qualities of a language
unhomliness
to feel not at home even in your home because you are not at home in your identity
mimicry
the colonized immitating their colonizers
othering
the practice of judging all who are different as less than fully human
colonist ideology
based on the colonizers assumption of their own superiority which they contrasted with the alleged inferiority of native peoples
eurocentrism (Eurocentric universalism)
the use of European culture as a standard of perfection
metropolitan
the colonizers believed that only their own anglo-europeans culture was civilized and sophisticated
nativism
the emphasis on indigenous culture-rejection of European culture
hybridity
productive force of shrinking a culture
double colonization
similar to intersectionality-belonging to two groups that are both colonized
sub-altern
people of inferior status
savage other
the evil other
exotic other
an other that is considered beautiful or royal
diaspora
a group of people separated from their homeland, but are together somewhere else
cultural imperialism (neocolonialism)
the exploitation of cheap labor available in developing countries
differance
to differ
chain of signifiers
sign=signifier+signifier+……dissemination of meaning
instability of meaning
there is not just one perfect meaning to something
binary oppositions
objective/subjective
opposite terms that are compared
