Race, Ethnicity, and Religion

Question 1

Should we use the term non-white?

Answer 1

Avoid the term non-white, or other terms that treat whiteness as a default.

Question 2

Should we use nouns or adjectives when describing a person’s race or ethnicity?

Answer 2

Use adjectives, not nouns (for example, a Hispanic person, not a Hispanic).

Question 3

Do we use the term Alien?

Answer 3

Immigrant

Question 4

Do we use the term foreigners?

Answer 4

Immigrant

Question 5

Do we use the term Indian?

Answer 5

Indigenous person

Question 6

Do we use the term urban?

Answer 6

People/person of color

Question 7

What does multiracial mean?

Answer 7

People of two or more racial backgrounds.

Question 8

What does BIPOC stand for?

Answer 8

An acronym that stands for Black, Indigenous and people of color. It is pronounced “buy-pock” as opposed to saying each letter individually.

Question 9

Black Lives Matter started as what?

Answer 9

As a Twitter hashtag as a call to action and a response to the anti-Black racism that permeates our society.

Question 10

Cajun

Answer 10

Cajun is a native of Louisiana originally descended from the Acadian French immigrants.

Question 11

Creole

Answer 11

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.)

Question 12

Caucasian

Answer 12

Term for White, or relatively light-skinned, people originally from Europe and adjacent regions of Africa and Asia.

Question 13

Central America connects what?

Answer 13

A tropical isthmus that connects North America to South America.

Question 14

BIPOC is meant to unite who?

Answer 14

The term is meant to unite all people of color

Question 15

When did BIPOC first come into use?

Answer 15

In the early 2010s

Question 16

Central America consists of what seven countries?

Answer 16

Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

Question 17

When did the Black Lives Matter movement begin?

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

BlackLivesMatter believes:

Answer 18

All live are important but not all lives face the same threats.

Question 19

Acadians

Answer 19

The term “Acadians” refers to immigrants from France in the early 1600s who settled in the colony of Acadia - now a region in Canada)

Question 20

Should we use the term Caucasian?

Answer 20

No. Use White instead.

Question 21

Why do Black and Indigenous people distinctively acknowledged in BIPOC?

Answer 21

They face different and often more severe forms of racial oppression and cultural erasure as consequences of systemic white supremacy and colonialism.

Question 22

Who was killed by police on Staten Island, NY in 2014?

Answer 22

Eric Garner

Question 23

Who was killed by police Baltimore, in 2014?

Answer 23

Freddie Brown

Question 24

When did BIPOC become more prevelant?

Answer 24

In May 2020 during the protest movement against police brutality and institutional racism sparked by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

Question 25

apartheid

Answer 25

Racial segregation enforced by the white minority government against non-white residents in South Africa

Question 26

When did the apartheid system exist?

Answer 26

1948 to 1994

Question 27

What umbrella term do we use when referring to Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis and others?

Answer 27

South Asians

Question 28

What umbrella term do we use when referring to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and others?

Answer 28

East Asians

Question 29

Nancy Green was born a ____ and became ____?

Answer 29

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.

Question 30

Why do some find Aunt Jemima offensive?

Answer 30

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.

Question 31

Cultural misappropriation

Answer 31

It is when people use another group’s cultural elements or artifacts in ways that can ridicule or be negative.

Question 32

Should we use the term “Ethnic”?

Answer 32

No. Instead use the specific country. When writing about things from multiple cultures use terms like international, global, or world.