Midterm Flashcards
Racism
Any action or attitude that subordinates an individual or group based race
Prejudice plus power
Racial inequity
Structural racism
The normalization and legitimization of a system that’s advantage whites while adverse outcomes for poc
White supremacy
System of exploration and oppression of people of color by whites for the purpose of maintaining and defending a system of wealth, power and privilege
Diversity v. Equity
D: Acknowledge and appreciation of people of different racial backgrounds
E: equal distribution of resources And opportunities for people regardless of racial background
OMI AND WINAT
Example that race is not biological
Susie Phipps
Before race identified people, what did?
Religion
Christian poc were uncivilized
To maintain white supremacy the us did what?
Perceived racial differences
Racial democracy
Everyone gets a say
How long was slavery and when did it begin
250 years 1619
Capitalism
Everything you own (wealth)centers you higher or a little in society
U.S capitalism organized by racial hierarchy
Peoples labor treated differently
Treatment is dependent on race
Historically blackness equals slavable
Stereotypes of black sexuality
Savage Larger genetalia Over hyper sexualized Uninhabited wild Promiscuous No partnership/ monogamy
Anti-miscegenation laws
Banned interracial marriage and established white supremacy
Race
A political construction created to concentrate power with white people Ana legitimize dominance over non white people
Institutional racism
Policies:laws customs and practices that create advantages for elites and oppression AND DISADVANTAGES for POC
Active racism
Blatant intentional acts of racial bigotry and discriminate
Example: racial slurs or acts of violence
Passive racism
Subtle often unintentional acts that do not challenge racial inequalities and actions
Laughing st s racist joke or accepting practices of POC as subordinate
Active anti racism
Intentional efforts to challenge and act against racial bigotry and discrimination
Colorblind racism
The racial ideology that maintains the racial structure of white supremacy for those racialized as white
What are the four central frames
Minimization
Naturalization
Cultural racism
Abstract liberalism
Abstract liberalism
Can be identified as the use of liberal ideas
Individual choices perceived as justification explanation for racial disparities such as segregation
Ignores institutions practices that promote segregation
Ignores that people do not start equal
Cultural racism
Culturally based reassuring by race/stereotypes
Naturalization
Racialized phenomena are seen as natural occurrences
Minimization
Promotes the idea that racism is small no longer a concern
Four styles
How color blind racism sounds Racial projections Semantics moves Diminutives Rhetorical incoherence
Semantic moves
Verbal strategies that attempt to avoid conflict or protect someone’s true views of character
I’m not prejudice but
Some of my friends are
I’m not poc so idk
Racial project
Places racism or racial motivation on POc as way of avoiding responsibility, for how one really feel about an issue
Assume poc are the problem
Diminutives
Strategy that often has a measure at issued to soften a racist statement
I’m little against
I’m just a bit
Rhetorical incoherence
Often represented by lack t clarify and organization in speech
Lying
Speech issues
Racial stories
Adding to supporting argu,met
Racial story line
Evidence u use to support arguments
Socially shared tales
Testimonies
Narrator is the central participant
Race
A socially constructed categorization of people that changes over time and reflects various social,political and economic factors
Racialize
To differentiate or categorize according to race
Institutional racism
Policies laws customs that disadvantage poc and advantages white people
