ethics study
Which amendment abolished the institution of slavery?
13th
In what year did Los Angeles erupt in the Zoot Suit Riots Links to an external site., the worst race riots in the city to date. For 10 nights, American sailors cruise Mexican American neighborhoods in search of "zoot-suiters" -- hip, young Mexican teens dressed in baggy pants and long-tailed coats. The military men drag kids -- some as young as 12 years old -- out of movie theaters and cafes, tearing their clothes off and viciously beating them.
1943
In what year did the President issue an executive order banning all people (including refugees and visa holders) from seven Muslim majority countries? These countries included: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Group of answer choices
2017
In her 1988 article White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh introduced what concept?
26 daily effects of white privilege in her life.
How many types of social movements are describes in the reading? Group of answer choices
4 types of Social Movements: Alternative, Redemptive, Reformative, Revolutionary
According to the National Crime Information Center report, how many Native American women and girls have een reported missing since 2016
5712
How does Artivist, Julio Salgado describe the meaning of the word "UndocuQueer"? Group of answer choices
An anti-assimilationist, radical way that critiques the oppression of people on the basis of race, ethnicity, and citizenship as well as gender and sexuality
Is the process by which a racial or ethnic minority loses its distinctive identity and lifeways and conforms to the cultural patterns of the dominant group. Group of answer choices
Assimilation
Who's philosophy was, "There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive...
Harriet Tubman
During the 17th, 18th, and early twentieth centuries, where did most immigrants originate from? Group of answer choices
Mostly Europe
The Census designates funding that will be invested into specific communities. According to the reading, not having a box on the census causes Middle Eastern/North African communities in the US to lose how much money in federal assistance. Group of answer choices
Nearly $400 billion in federal assistance.
Conditions that impel people to emigrate from their native lands and immigrate to a new and unknown country—are political and economic etc. are described as: Group of answer choices
Push Factors
What did the Fugitive Slave Act passed in 1850 allow?
The Act made it easy for slaveowners to recapture ex-slaves or simply to pick up black people they claimed had run away.
In the reading," Who Gets to Tell the Stories? Carlisle Indian School: Imagining a Place of Memory Through Descendant Voices, what does the author state is used as weapons against attempted oppression?
Traditional Stories
The Centre for Muslim Minorities and Islam Policy Studies definesThe term "Islamic feminism" as Group of answer choices
distinguishes those women who work specifically within the Islamic faith, as opposed to "secularist feminism" which is weakly attached to religion or not at all
What entails directly addressing barriers to equality while also providing intentional support, specifically to groups who have been historically and systematically disadvantaged. It is the guarantee of fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while at the same time striving to identify and eliminate barriers that have prevented the full participation of some groups (Armstrong, 2019).
equity
Which concept describes the systematic killing of an entire group of people. Group of answer choices
genocide
During reconstruction liberation of enslaved people was limited by what?
interests of the dominant groups
Which date celebrates the commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States?
june 19
According to the assigned reading, how does Kendi define an anti-racist?
one who is supporting an anti-racist policy through their actions or expressing an anti-racist idea
What is an ideology that promotes the political and economic unity and cooperation of Asian peoples?
pan-Asianism
Which term describes the following concept: the category of the nation is no longer sufficient to describe the fundamentals of political identity or state government. This concept seeks to break the tie between citizenship and ethnic identity or existential difference.
post nationalism
What is the definition of race?
refers to a category of people who share certain inherited physical characteristics, such as skin color, facial features, and stature.
For decades, the Latinx population was referred to as ______of politics in the United States because of its potential to significantly impact both local and national elections
sleeping giant
What are "Black codes"?
southern laws that severely restricted the rights of free black people.
How does the textbook define white supremacy?
systematic and systemic ways that the racial order benefits those deemed white and operates to oppress people of color.
Define social stratification.
the unequal ways in which the resources of society are distributed
According to the assigned reading, El Plan de Santa Barbara is based on the identity and philosophy of Chicanismo to propose a larger plan to advocate for self-determination and empowerment, Chicano nationalism, and the central role of higher education in achieving liberation at the community level.
true
According to the assigned reading, the term Chicano (or Chicana/x) was reclaimed and embraced by politicized youth as a way to embrace their Indigenous heritage and roots ("Indigenismo"), reject Anglo-assimilation, recognize Mexicans as a twice colonized people, and take part in a larger social movement ("el movimiento") to challenge institutional discrimination and racism. Group of answer choices
true
According to the assigned reading: Three decades from now, whites, the dominant racial group today in terms of power and privilege, will constitute less than half the country. This is also referred to as becoming a majority-minority nation, meaning majority people of color.
true
Affirmative action refers to the equitable treatment of minorities and women in employment and education. Affirmative action programs were begun in the 1960's to provide people of color and women access to jobs and education to make up for past discrimination.
true
Discrimination in this context refers to the arbitrary denial of rights, privileges, and opportunities to members of these groups. The use of the word arbitrary emphasizes that these groups are being treated unequally not because of their lack of merit but because of their race and ethnicity.
true
Immigrants have lower crime rates than native-born Americans, and immigration has apparently helped lower the U.S. crime rate. Group of answer choices
true
In 1943, Fred Korematsu, with the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit in federal court arguing that it was unconstitutional to deprive American citizens of the their civil rights without due process of law. The Supreme Court of the United States decided that, in times of great national strife, it was Constitutional to deprive one specific segment of the population of their civil rights because of the potential for harm by that specific group.
true
Legal scholar, Kimberelé Crenshaw coined the concept "Intersectionality".
true
Life expectancy is low in Black neighborhoods due to racial disparity.
true
One significant campaign against the dispersal and destruction of an Asian American ethnic enclave was the campaign to save the International Hotel in the Manilatown District of San Francisco
true
Reparations refers to the act of repairing damage and providing restitution for past harms.
true
The definition of liberation is: the state of freedom. Within the context of Ethnic Studies, liberation is often used to describe social movements (i.e. Black Power, BDS, and others) whose aim is to achieve freedom through equal rights and justice. Group of answer choices
true
The definition of white supremacy is: the belief that white people are inherently superior and represent the dominant race. It is an operationalized form of racism that manifests globally, institutionally, and through systems of power.
true
The image that the entire Asian American community is the "model minority" is a myth
true
The political slogan of Black power could encompass many meanings, but at its core stood for the self-determination of Blacks in political, economic, and social organizations. Group of answer choices
true
Define Conversos
were identified and discriminated against because of the belief held by some Christians that the impurity of their blood made them incapable of experiencing a true conversion.
What is color-blind racism?
The current and dominant racial ideology in the United States, constructs a social reality for people of color in its practices, which are subtle, institutional, and apparently nonracial
What is the goal of settler colonialism? Group of answer choices
The removal and erasure of Indigenous peoples in order to take the land for use by settlers in perpetuity.
What is W.E.B DuBois' definition of double-consciousness?
The sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others
Strmic-Pawl visualized white supremacy in the form of a flower: the roots or foundation of racism in the U.S., the petals represent different racial inequalities. What does the stem represent?
The stem represents historical events and processes
racial formation
describes race development as a socio-historical process involving political struggle and that "race is a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies"
_________is the act of taking land by a foreign group or nation, most frequently through force, and then settling in the newly acquired territory which displaces the original Indigenous people to those lands.
Colonization
The period from 1975-1979 in Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge killed approximately 1.2-1.7 million people, or approximately 20% of the population (Williams, 2005). The political philosophy that drove these atrocities required a restructuring of the social and economic order of Cambodia and the "persecution and elimination" of those deemed a threat to the new political state (Ratner, S. & Abrams, J., 1997) is known as:
Cambodian Genocide
What is the "Curse of Ham"?
It is a the biblical story found in the King James Version (1611) of the Bible in Genesis 9:18-27, some believe it caused a significant influence on universal attitudes and negative perceptions of people of color.
In the assigned Article, Advocating for Arabic: An interview with Lara Kiswani, why does she say learning Arabic is important? Group of answer choices
It's obvious that the Arab region is of great interest to the world for political and economic reasons. This perpetuates the hyper visibility and invisibility that Arabs face in the US. What is known about Arabs, about Arab history, culture, and people is often based on stereotypes and racist understandings of us as the "other." Otherwise, we as a people with a history and a living culture are not seen at all.
The Centre for Muslim Minorities and Islam Policy Studies defines a Muslim feminist as:
One who adopts a worldview in which Islam can be contextualized and reinterpreted in order to promote concepts of equity and equality between men and women; and for whom freedom of choice plays an important part in expression of faith
What has become a symbol of a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), representing the silence of media and law enforcement and representing the oppression and subjugation of native women who are now rising to say "no more stolen sisters"?
Red hand over mouth
Racialization
Refers to the processes by which a group of people is defined by their "race.
W.E.B. Du Bois' wrote one of the most influential works in the field of sociology highlighting how race affects identity. What is the name of the seminal book? Group of answer choices
The Souls of Black Folk
In 1921, Allegations were made against one Black teenage boy of Greenwood who was accused of trying to rape an elevator operator. This led to law enforcement deputizing a giant mob of thousands of white men and boys who would go on to burn down thousands of homes in Greenwood, a prosperous Black Community in Tulsa also known as Black Wall Street. The mob also burned down Black Churches, Schools, businesses, and hospitals. There were many people killed in the attack. What is this event known as? Group of answer choices
The Tulsa Massacre
Describe separtism
The marginalized group desires physical separation of two groups in residence, workplace & social functions (e.g. Black Nationalists).
Who founded Black Lives Matter?
The movement was co-founded in 2013 by three Black community organizers: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi
Booker Taliaferro Washington was subjected to the degradation and exploitation of slavery early in life. But Washington also developed an insatiable thirst to learn. Working against tremendous odds, Washington matriculated into Hampton University in Virginia and thereafter established a southern institution that would educate many Black Americans, what was the name of the school founded by Booker T. Washington?
Tuskegee Institute. Located in Alabama
This concept refers to the act of entering the United States without governmental permission and in violation of the United States Nationality Law, or staying beyond the termination date of a visa, also in violation of the law.
Unauthorized immigration
What is a social construction?
a concept that has no objective reality but rather is what people decide it is
What is a sovereign state?
a political organization with a centralized government that has supreme independent authority over a geographic area.
