Flashcards on Segregation, Integration, and Representation

Flashcards covering key vocabulary and concepts from a lecture on segregation, integration, representation, and related civil rights topics.

Soft Racism of Low Expectations

When teachers lower academic standards for non-white students due to perceived systemic racism.

White Flight

Middle-class households leaving city centers, gutting property taxes and business income, leading to disinvestment.

Magnet Schools

Schools created to attract students using specialized programs to work around integration efforts.

Representation Matters

The importance of seeing oneself or similar individuals reflected in books, history, and popular culture.

Television's Role (1950s)

Communicating and sharing social norms, often depicting conformity and traditional family roles.

Shift in Television (Post-1960s)

Increased black representation in television, driven by civil rights movements and market opportunities.

Blaxploitation Films

A genre of film focused on the exploitation of black people, often featuring a black protagonist fighting against injustice.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Ended discriminatory practices like race-based tests for voting and provided federal oversight in states with a history of disenfranchisement.

EEOC

Stands for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and prevented discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Indian Civil Rights Act

Legislation ensuring tribal courts handle violations on tribal rights, protecting indigenous individuals from biased state civil courts.

Fair Housing Act

Prohibited discrimination based on race for renting or selling homes, ending practices like redlining.

Southern Strategy

A political strategy used by the Republican Party to gain support in the South by appealing to white voters opposed to civil rights legislation.

Coded language in politics

Politicians use terms like "welfare" and "equality of opportunity" as proxies to gain support, usually with a racial component.