Unit 7: Social Justice

Question 1

Political Corectness

Answer 1

Considering what you say to others, and not saying derogatory terms and/or phrases

Question 2

Social Justice

Answer 2

Justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society

Question 3

Injustice

Answer 3

Lack of fairness

Question 4

Justice Reform

Answer 4

Addresses structural issues in criminal justice systems towards minorities such as racial profiling, police brutality, mass incarceration, and recidivism

Question 5

Marginalization

Answer 5

To ostracize a person, group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral

Question 6

Cancel Culture

Answer 6

A social environment in which publicly boycotting or withdrawing support for people, organizations, for promoting socially unacceptable beliefs

Question 7

Cancel Speech

Answer 7

Publicly boycotting or withdrawing support for people for promoting socially unacceptable language

Question 8

Gentrification

Answer 8

A poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process

Question 9

Blaxploitation

Answer 9

Exploitation of black people, especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies

Question 10

Redlining

Answer 10

The illegal practice of refusing to offer credit or insurance in a particular community on a discriminatory basis (as because of the race or ethnicity of its residents)

Question 11

Watts Riots

Answer 11

A series of violent confrontations between Los Angeles police and residents of Watts a predominantly African American neighborhood of South-Central Los Angeles that began in August 1965. The immediate cause of the riots was the arrest of an African American man, Marquette Frye, by a white California Highway Patrol officer on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and the use of excessive force that was used to subdue him

Question 12

Rodney King

Answer 12

He was beaten harshly by Los Angeles police officers during a traffic stop in March 1991, which was video tapped and aired on the national news

Question 13

OJ Simpson Case

Answer 13

A criminal trial in Los Angles in which O. J. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, that played out on national television

Question 14

Defund Police

Answer 14

To move funding away from police departments and into community resources such as mental health experts, housing, and social workers