Race/ Racism Flashcards
Individual racism
Personal prejudice beliefs and discriminatory actions based on race
Institutional racism/ structural
Patterns by which racial inequality is structured through key cultural institutions, policies and systems
Race
a flawed system of classification, with no biological basis, that uses certain physical characteristics to divide the human population into supposedly discrete groups
Racism
Individual thoughts and actions and institutional patterns and policies that create unequal access to power, resources, and opportunities based on imagined differences among groups
Racial ideology
A set of popular ideas about race that allows the discriminatory behaviors of individuals and institutions to seem reasonable, rational, and normal
eugentics
a psudoscience attempting to scientifically prove the existence of separate human races to improve the populations genetic composition by favoring some races over others
Blacks status in the Early 17th century
- Not slaves
- spoke spanish and portugese and familiar with european culture
Black status in Mid 17th century
rebellion
bring control
Blacks status in Late 17th century
racial divisions and laws
Blacks status in early 18th century
slavery
Black Lives Matter
- Ferguson 2012