module 4b (textbook ch 3) Flashcards
(quiz) // question 1: The Convict Lease System was the blueprint for Private Prisons today.
true
(quiz) // question 2: Who mostly attended lynchings?
School teachers, Mayors, Parents, Children, Police
(quiz) // question 3: Approximately at what age does discrimination occur in schools?
preschool
(quiz) // question 4: Slave patrols were the blueprint for U.S. Police Departments today.
true
(quiz) // question 5: Food Racism or Food Oppression is a term discussed by Harriet Washington and means:
The targeting of poor communities and neighbors to sell high sugar, fat and chemically processed food
white man’s burden
“we have to take care of these slaves…monkeys… etc.”
Dr. James Marrion Simms
- physician in 1800s
- created first vaginal speculum
- used slaves to experiment on without anesthesia to fix (vaginal) obstetric fistula
- claimed black women can not feel pain
textbook chapter story: riker’s island visit
author went to rivers island to talk to incarcerated men aging from 16-18 years old by the end of her presentation the inmates were excited.
this is because she respected them.
crimes against humanity was the hardest chapter for our author to write
true
maafa
the transatlantic slave trade, referred to as the middle passage or maafa.
swahili for DISASTER CALAMITY AND CATASTROPHE
first enslaved african were captured and brought to____ in ____
portugal, 1444
definition of “chattel”
defined as movable item of personal property
virginia casual killing act of 1705 and unlawful assembly act of 1680
made it legal to kill a slave who raises a hand against any christian
why would slave owners rape female slaves
because it was an act of physical violence designed to stifle black women’s will to resist and to remind them of their servile status.
black codes
after emancipation proclamation.
made to regulate every party of a black person’s life.
prevented one from owning land, suing, voting etc.
peonage
the unlawful pushing of blacks back into slavery through debt servitude.
thirteenth amendment loophole
slavery is okay if it is a punishment for crime.
- created convict lease system
convict lease system
modern day: privatized prisons
-began in Alabama, 1846
-soon replaced by chain gangs
instead of imprisoning convicts instead lease them to PLANTATION owners for the duration of their sentence.
when this was created black people were imprisoned for anything. white people would falsely claim they raped etc. just so blacks could go to prison.
the white man’s burden
white people’s obligation to control, direct, and civilize all those they believed to be from inferior races.
Jim Crow laws
separate, but “equal” –> plessy v. ferguson
not equal at all it was just discrimination
- 14th amendment: made African Americans citizens
- 15th amendment: allowed all black males to vote
Jim Crow stopped these two through registration laws and poll taxes.
lynching is still
legal (smh this country)
Greenwood/tulsa race riot
1921, white mob attacked “Black Wall Street”/Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma killing hundreds. the police helped the white mob kill the black people in this town after a black men was suspected of attempting to harm a white women and the mob could not kill him as the people of Greenwood protected him. Instead they killed even more innocent people.
Tuskegee syphillis trials
U.S. government let hundreds of black men die (of 399 men) with syphilis despite being able to help them just to see what syphilis can do to the body. the men did not know this would happen as they were promised care.
slave patrols..
paved the way for the american policing system
black boys are seen as
older and less innocent than their white peers
