Final (Race and Politics - Ch. 12)

Question 1

walking-with

Answer 1

• decolonial activity
• researcher walks with participant
• connection and understanding

Question 2

two-eyed seeing

Answer 2

learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing, and from the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledges and ways of knowing

Question 3

health literacy

Answer 3

an individuals ability to access, understand, evaluate, and communicate info to promote, maintain, and improve health in various life course settings

Question 4

social activism aligned research

Answer 4

• practice of collaborative research and action
• usually with marginalized people involved in political struggle

Question 5

colonialism

Answer 5

• a particular strategy or experiment in domination and exploitation

Question 6

social stratification

Answer 6

• ranking of members of a society into a hierarchy
• not natural

Question 7

class stratification

Answer 7

• ranking by wealth and status
• can move up or down

Question 8

caste

Answer 8

• hierarchal system based on birth
• can’t move up or down

Question 9

social mobility

Answer 9

ability to move up or down the system

Question 10

naturalizing discourses

Answer 10

deliberate representation of particular identities as if they were the result of biology or nature

Question 11

colourism

Answer 11

system of social identities negotiated situationally along a continuum of skin colours between black and white

Question 12

systematic racism

Answer 12

• structural racism
• public policies
• institutional practices
• cultural representation

Question 13

intersectionality

Answer 13

• forms of discrimination “intersect” to create unique dynamics and effects
• gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation