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Mid-term
Ethnic studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Third World Liberation Front? | A strike lead by students that lasted 5 months to demand Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University in 1968 |
| What is Social Identity VS. Personal identity | Social Identity Construction: 1) Social Categorization 2) Social Comparison 3) Psychological Work (Social Mobility or Social Change) |
| What is Race? | A social construction to describe a group of people who share physical and cultural traits as well as common ancestry |
| What is Ethnicity? | Group identity bases on notions of similar or shared history, culture, and kinship |
| What is Racism? | The belief that races are populations who's physical; differences are linked to significant cultural and social differences within a hierarchy |
| What is Prejudice? | Belief that people belong to distinct racial groups with innate hierarchical differences that can be measured and judged |
| What is Social Construction? | An idea pr a way of viewing people based not on biological differences but on social perceptions |
| What is Intersectionality? | A theoretical lens ( Kimberle Crenshaw) that analyzes the multiple identities and social systems that influences and shape individual's experiences . |
| What is Settler Colonialism? | A specific form of colonialism in which outside power attempt to eradicate and replace the living societies of Native people to establish and maintain settler colonies. |
| What is Mythical Portrait of the Colonized? | A fabricated, negative, and stereotypical image constructed by the colonizer to justify colonial exploitation |
| What is The Three Tenants of Colonial racism? | 1) The gulf between the culture of the colonialist and the colonized 2) The exploration of these differences for the benefit of the colonialist 3) The use of these supposed differences as standards of absolute fact |
| What is Sistema de Castas? | A Spanish system of classification that categorized individuals based on their racial and ethnic backgrounds in a hierarchical system |
| What is Assimilation? | A colonial strategy through which the colonizer demands that the colonized abandon their language, culture, history, and collective identity in order to approximate the norms of the dominant society |
| What is Manifest Destiny? | The idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America. It is based on assumptions. |
| What is Hegemony? | When an idea or view of the world becomes accepted by most people as common sense |
| What is Genocide? | The mass killing of a group, especially those of a particular ethnic or racial group |
| What is Epistemology? | The study of knowledge and how it is created and understood within specific cultures or groups of people. Examines how people come to know things and what counts as knowledge |
| What is Biological Determinism? |