Race, Ethnicity, and Religion Flashcards
Should we use the term non-white?
Avoid the term non-white, or other terms that treat whiteness as a default.
Should we use nouns or adjectives when describing a person’s race or ethnicity?
Use adjectives, not nouns (for example, a Hispanic person, not a Hispanic).
Do we use the term Alien?
Immigrant
Do we use the term foreigners?
Immigrant
Do we use the term Indian?
Indigenous person
Do we use the term urban?
People/person of color
What does multiracial mean?
People of two or more racial backgrounds.
What does BIPOC stand for?
An acronym that stands for Black, Indigenous and people of color. It is pronounced “buy-pock” as opposed to saying each letter individually.
Black Lives Matter started as what?
As a Twitter hashtag as a call to action and a response to the anti-Black racism that permeates our society.
Cajun
Cajun is a native of Louisiana originally descended from the Acadian French immigrants.
Creole
Creole is a person of European origin born in the West Indies, Central America, tropical South America or the Gulf States (Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas because they border the Gulf of Mexico.)
Caucasian
Term for White, or relatively light-skinned, people originally from Europe and adjacent regions of Africa and Asia.
Central America connects what?
A tropical isthmus that connects North America to South America.
BIPOC is meant to unite who?
The term is meant to unite all people of color
When did BIPOC first come into use?
In the early 2010s
Central America consists of what seven countries?
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
When did the Black Lives Matter movement begin?
A civil rights movement that started after the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Florida shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin.
BlackLivesMatter believes:
All live are important but not all lives face the same threats.
Acadians
The term “Acadians” refers to immigrants from France in the early 1600s who settled in the colony of Acadia - now a region in Canada)
Should we use the term Caucasian?
No. Use White instead.
Why do Black and Indigenous people distinctively acknowledged in BIPOC?
They face different and often more severe forms of racial oppression and cultural erasure as consequences of systemic white supremacy and colonialism.
Who was killed by police on Staten Island, NY in 2014?
Eric Garner
Who was killed by police Baltimore, in 2014?
Freddie Brown
When did BIPOC become more prevelant?
In May 2020 during the protest movement against police brutality and institutional racism sparked by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
apartheid
Racial segregation enforced by the white minority government against non-white residents in South Africa
When did the apartheid system exist?
1948 to 1994
What umbrella term do we use when referring to Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis and others?
South Asians
What umbrella term do we use when referring to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and others?
East Asians
Nancy Green was born a ____ and became ____?
A slave, who became the advertising world’s first living trademark as Aunt Jemima to portray a happy cook to promote a pancake recipe by Pearl Milling Co.
Why do some find Aunt Jemima offensive?
Some view the icon as a painful reminder of slavery, and her character as the apron-clad cook with a bandanna tied on her head as a negative stereotype of black women.
Cultural misappropriation
It is when people use another group’s cultural elements or artifacts in ways that can ridicule or be negative.
Should we use the term “Ethnic”?
No. Instead use the specific country. When writing about things from multiple cultures use terms like international, global, or world.
