CRITICAL RACE THEORY
Critical Race Theory (CRT) - Answer- A movement by a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power. They try to understand our social situation and how society organizes itself along racial lines ...
CRITICAL RACE THEORY
Critical Race Theory (CRT) - Answer- A movement by a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power. They try to understand our social situation and how society organizes itself along racial lines and hierarchies and how to transform it for the better.
Micro-aggression - Answer- Small act of racism consciously or unconsciously coming from racial matters we absorb from our cultural heritage in the USA.
What are the Six tenets of CRT? - Answer- Ordinariness, Interest Convergence, Social Construction of Race, Differential Racialization, Intersectionality, and A Unique Voice of Color.
Ordinariness - Answer- Racism is common.
Interest Convergence - Answer- When interest of blacks and whites interests converge. But the white people only support because there is something in it for them
Social Construction Theory - Answer- Is a made up phenomenon that is scientifically discredited
Differential Racialization - Answer- When the dominant society racializes different minority groups at different times in response to shifting needs such as labor market.
Intersectionality - Answer- People are a combination of different social categories thus no one has a single identity.
A Unique Voice of Color - Answer- Minority writers writing about their experiences with oppression. White counterparts are unlikely to understand.
Hypo-descent - Answer- A mixed child takes on the racial classification of the parent from the racially subordinate group.
Idealist - Answer- Thinks racism and discrimination are matters of thinking, mental categorization, attitude and discourse. And since race is a social construction we can
deconstruct it.
Realist - Answer- Think while attitudes and words are important, racism is more than that. It plays a role in our lives. It determines allocation of privilege and status.
Social Stratification - Answer- A pattern in society that ranks and categorizes people into social positions which determines one's access to society's power, wealth, and opportunities. Its based on class, race, gender, and other social characteristics. The result is unequal distribution because of ones social status.
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