nursing 1070: week 4 - social justice & systemic racism

Question 1

Foundational aspects of white supremacy

Answer 1

• white privilege
• white fragility
• white superiority
• white silence
• tone policing
• white exceptionalism

Question 2

White privilege

Answer 2

“invisible backpack with unearned assets (tools)”

• hidden in society

Question 3

white fragility

Answer 3

• white people’s responsibility to be less fragile/sensitive
• POC don’t have to be careful around them

Question 4

emotional-social intelligence (skills)

Answer 4

1. Emotions (amino acids)
2. Feelings (takes 6 sec to feel)
3. Mood (influenced by neural states, pklyvagal chart)
4. self-regulation (controlling your emotions)
5. coregulation (learning to self-regulate)
6. validating someone (empathy, active listening, understanding)

Question 5

polyvagal chart - dorsal vagal

Answer 5

• life threat
• freeze (collapse, immobilize, conserve energy)
• caused by parasympathetic nervous system
• feelings: numbness, depression, preparation for death, helplessness

Question 6

polyvagal chart - sympathetic

Answer 6

• danger
• fight or flight
• caused by sympathetic nervous system
• increase in anger, rage
• decrease in panic, fear, anxiety

Question 7

pklyvagal chart - ventral vagal

Answer 7

• safety
• social engagement (connection, oriented to environment)
• caused by parasympathetic nervous system
• feelings: calmness, in the present, settled, compassionate

Question 8

How to validate

Answer 8

1. investigate and confirm feelings identified
2. acknowledge them with empathy
3. take responsibility
4. ask how you can improve/resolve situation

Question 9

tone policing

Answer 9

white person asking someone to not speak their feelings/message, because they don’t want their feelings hurt
- based on tone
- disregards manners/emotions

Question 10

white silence

Answer 10

silence about the problem, avoiding the conversation

Question 11

white superiority

Answer 11

hidden, unrecognized, subconsciously recognizing that white people are superior in society

Question 12

white exceptionalism

Answer 12

• white people want to believe that only the lonely, isolated ‘white only’ people are racist
• worried more about being called racist than actually having racist actions

Question 13

black and white thinking

Answer 13

• concrete thought, racist people = bad, non-racist people = good
• act on change instead of focusing on not associated with racism

Question 14

three forms of racism

Answer 14

institutionalized - racism embedded in institutions (health care & educaiton)

personally-mediated - prejudice and discrimination

internalized - people who experience it accept the negative messages

Question 15

Way brain categorizes things

Answer 15

In-group:
- viewed more positively
- treated better
- seen as individuals (not stereotyped)

Out-group:
- viewed more negatively
- treated worse
-seen as a group (stereotyped)

Question 16

systemic racism

Answer 16

• idea that racism is due to history of society, not the individual
• results in one group having disproportionate access to power
• power imbalance maintained through law, unfair policies

Question 17

microagressions

Answer 17

• everyday verbal, nonverbal, insults, negative thoughts, can be intentional/unintentional
• hostile, derogatory messages to target persons (groups)

Question 18

advocacy

Answer 18

engage others, fight inequity and inequality