©SIRJOEL EXAM SOLUTIONS
10/7/2024 11:03AM
AFST 331 FINALE EXAM TERMS
Apartheid - answer✔A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and
legal discrimination against non-whites. (SYSTEM OF SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION
ON GROUNDS OF RACE)
Black Lives Matter - answer✔A group that protests discrimination against African-Americans by
the police. (CAMPAIGNS AGAINST VIOLENCE AND RACISM TOWARDS BLACK
PEOPLE)
Cannoical American Literature - answer✔a body of books related to American culture
Drapetomania - answer✔is the idea in which a slave who runs away has to be mentally ill.. why
would you run away from your loving white master.. Samuel Cartwright
Driving While Black - answer✔The belief that Black drivers are more likely than White drivers
to be stopped by police. (BLACK DRIVERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE STOPPED BY THE
POLICE THAN WHITE PEOPLE)
Fair Housing Act - answer✔The federal law that prohibits discrimination in housing based on
race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, and national origin (PROTECTS PEOPLE
FROM DISCRIMINATION WHEN BUYING OR RENTING A HOUSE)
Burdened/Unburdened by Race - answer✔the effect race can have on the performance level
academically, mental and physical health. Also, the perception and pre-conveived notion of one's
race greatly impacts him or her.
For Profit Prisons - answer✔private prison where people are imprisoned by a 3rd party that is
contracted by a government agency.
Gentrification - answer✔the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it
conforms to middle-class taste.
Guilt - answer✔Tim Wise says guilt is not the point. There is no purpose of guilt because it
wasn't created now. Feeling guilty doesn't solve the solution owning up to the responsibility is
the solution. Time Wise says that white people have to take responsibility not because they are
guilty but because they are here
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Institutional Privilege - answer✔white people who experience privilege without being conscious
of it
Juneteenth - answer✔Independence day of Freedom, an American holiday. The announcement of
the abolition of slavery. Emancipation of enslaved African Americans
Meritocracy - answer✔a system in which promotion is based on individual ability or
achievement (RULING CLASS OF EDUCATED OR SKILLED PEOPLE)
Net worth - answer✔measure of what an entity is worth
Normalized racism - answer✔the act of being racist is normal. "There is nothing wrong with it"
Underprivileged vs Overprivilged - answer✔Underprivilege is a passive term.. it doesn't imply
that anybody did anything to anyone.. it just there is privilege and white folks will put black
people under them to stay above them. Also, with this term underpirvileged there is a relative
term., the relative term is overprivileged it is not a word in the dictionary.. but this term is coined
to white people. it does't exist in the dictionary but they have created IT
Phrenology - answer✔the detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed
indication of character and mental abilities.
Prejudice - answer✔preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
(PRECONCEIVED OPINION W/O EXPERIENCE)
Racial Profiling - answer✔targeting a person based on their race
Racism - answer✔Belief that one race is superior to another (PREJUDICE, DISCRIMINATION
ACTS TOWARDS SOMEONE OF A DIFFER RACE0
Biological Racism - answer✔the idea that whites are genetically superior to non-whites
(SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT RACISM AND RACIAL SUPERIORITY)
Tulsa Race Riot - answer✔1921; mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses
of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma
White denial - answer✔Not acknowledging that racial discrimination and or racism occurs in this
country. or the belief that everyone is treated equally
White history month - answer✔gives white privilege, it is not a history month because it is given
and understood because black people are given one month while white people have the rest of
the months of the year
10/7/2024 11:03AM
AFST 331 FINALE EXAM TERMS
Apartheid - answer✔A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and
legal discrimination against non-whites. (SYSTEM OF SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION
ON GROUNDS OF RACE)
Black Lives Matter - answer✔A group that protests discrimination against African-Americans by
the police. (CAMPAIGNS AGAINST VIOLENCE AND RACISM TOWARDS BLACK
PEOPLE)
Cannoical American Literature - answer✔a body of books related to American culture
Drapetomania - answer✔is the idea in which a slave who runs away has to be mentally ill.. why
would you run away from your loving white master.. Samuel Cartwright
Driving While Black - answer✔The belief that Black drivers are more likely than White drivers
to be stopped by police. (BLACK DRIVERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE STOPPED BY THE
POLICE THAN WHITE PEOPLE)
Fair Housing Act - answer✔The federal law that prohibits discrimination in housing based on
race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, and national origin (PROTECTS PEOPLE
FROM DISCRIMINATION WHEN BUYING OR RENTING A HOUSE)
Burdened/Unburdened by Race - answer✔the effect race can have on the performance level
academically, mental and physical health. Also, the perception and pre-conveived notion of one's
race greatly impacts him or her.
For Profit Prisons - answer✔private prison where people are imprisoned by a 3rd party that is
contracted by a government agency.
Gentrification - answer✔the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it
conforms to middle-class taste.
Guilt - answer✔Tim Wise says guilt is not the point. There is no purpose of guilt because it
wasn't created now. Feeling guilty doesn't solve the solution owning up to the responsibility is
the solution. Time Wise says that white people have to take responsibility not because they are
guilty but because they are here
, ©SIRJOEL EXAM SOLUTIONS
10/7/2024 11:03AM
Institutional Privilege - answer✔white people who experience privilege without being conscious
of it
Juneteenth - answer✔Independence day of Freedom, an American holiday. The announcement of
the abolition of slavery. Emancipation of enslaved African Americans
Meritocracy - answer✔a system in which promotion is based on individual ability or
achievement (RULING CLASS OF EDUCATED OR SKILLED PEOPLE)
Net worth - answer✔measure of what an entity is worth
Normalized racism - answer✔the act of being racist is normal. "There is nothing wrong with it"
Underprivileged vs Overprivilged - answer✔Underprivilege is a passive term.. it doesn't imply
that anybody did anything to anyone.. it just there is privilege and white folks will put black
people under them to stay above them. Also, with this term underpirvileged there is a relative
term., the relative term is overprivileged it is not a word in the dictionary.. but this term is coined
to white people. it does't exist in the dictionary but they have created IT
Phrenology - answer✔the detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed
indication of character and mental abilities.
Prejudice - answer✔preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
(PRECONCEIVED OPINION W/O EXPERIENCE)
Racial Profiling - answer✔targeting a person based on their race
Racism - answer✔Belief that one race is superior to another (PREJUDICE, DISCRIMINATION
ACTS TOWARDS SOMEONE OF A DIFFER RACE0
Biological Racism - answer✔the idea that whites are genetically superior to non-whites
(SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT RACISM AND RACIAL SUPERIORITY)
Tulsa Race Riot - answer✔1921; mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses
of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma
White denial - answer✔Not acknowledging that racial discrimination and or racism occurs in this
country. or the belief that everyone is treated equally
White history month - answer✔gives white privilege, it is not a history month because it is given
and understood because black people are given one month while white people have the rest of
the months of the year
