Module 7 Flashcards
What is Bipoc
Black, Indigenous, People of Color
Systematic Racism
exsists across a society within and between institutions and organizations.
Individual Racism
Occurs between individuals, stems from racist assumptions, beliefs and or behaviors
Racial Microaggressions
brief and commonplace daily verbal behavioral or environmental indignities
White Privillage
Phrase saying how white peoples have greater access to power and resources
Diversity
Captures the unique range of human differences that differentiates people and group
Inclusion
Term to describe the active, intentional, and ongoing engagement with diversity in places and spaces where people may connect (e.g., school, work, sport organizations, fitness industry)
Intersectionality
Complex, cumulative ways in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (e.g., racism, sexism, homophobia) combine, overlap, or intersect.
Racialization
social construction of race (being seen as belonging to a certain race).
Ethnicity
involves being socially distant due to a shared culture.
Share a way of life, practice, values, commitment to ideas, traditions, etc.
e.g., country of origin.
Where should lines be drawn to distinguish one racial group from others?
No exact categorical divisions exist between races (< .01% of our genetic make-up).
Race can not be biologically defined and explained by genetic variation across individuals and population.
No rule to tell us where or how many lines to draw.
One Drop Rule
As long as a person had “one drop of black blood”, that person was defined as black.
Ensure the white race would remain pure
Those who were not “normal” were called?
Deviants
Racism
belief that race is the basic determinant of human abilities.
Action: Do disparities exist in physical activity by race in Canada?
Yes, inequalities exist that make opportunities to be active less available for racial minorities
