Racial Inequality Mind Map

Definitions

What is Race?

Relationship of Race to Ethnicity

Relationship of Race to Biology

Current Forms of Racism

Examples in Pop Culture

Racist Terms in Modern Language

Examples In Legislature; Systems

Different Levels of Racism

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Anti Racism vs Not Being racist

White Supremacy

Historic Examples in US

Race is a construct made by society to group people with similar physical characteristics, ethnicities, and/or shared experiences into defining boxes

While race isn't determined by biology, there can be similar biological features that are similar among people of the same race, like
for example melanin presence. Biology has been used in the past to defend racism, like for example there was a study in the past that said Black people had smaller brains and a higher pain tolerance. While these studies were disproved, their consequences still have effects in modern day.

A belief held that white is the superior race, and that white people should be treated better than the other races and can look down on the other races. Some examples of groups that have this belief is the KKK and Nazis

People of the same ethnicity are commonly grouped together in the same race, but not exclusively. For example, people from Kenya would likely all be considered Black

Indentured Servitude, Slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow Laws, "Separate but Equal", Police Brutality

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-Master Bedroom
-Peanut Gallery
-Black Mark
-Cakewalk
-Ghetto
-Hip Hip Hooray
-"Long Time No See"

-Voter Repression; notably in Georgia but present nationwide
-Lack of punishments of crimes committed on Native American land
-Drug punishments

-The backlash of Halle Bailey being casted as Ariel in the live action Little Mermaid
-South Park, just as a whole
-Kendall Jenner pepsi ad
-Some SNL skits in past years (not recent)

Antiracism means that you are actively working to combat racism by understanding injustice better and putting in a lot of effort to work towards racism, whereas not being racist just means you aren't racist.
Not being racist doesn't make progress, while antiracism does. It is super important to be antiracist.

Intrapersonal: someone's own beliefs that is intrinsic and they have within
Interpersonal: Racism that is acted on thru actions to other people; comments, posts, profiling, police brutality, microaggressions
Institutional: Laws, Biases, and instillment of fear built into institutions
Systemic: Difference in access to opportunities for people in minority races that have been a result of racism over a long period of time