AFA 1003 FSU Billy Close

Culture

Any/everything humans do/create to enhance their survival and well being. This includes both material products.

Oppression

prolonged, cruel, or unjust treatment or control

Predjudice

preconceived ideas based off of no experience

Racialism

Social predjudice with no power

Colorism

Skin color, lighter skin often means wealthier

Causality

A contextual argument of the relationship between 2 or more phenomena/variables; ultimately a label; Never proven, only inferred

Equality Access

Allowing access to all, but not equal opportunity

Equality of Opportunity

All people have the same opportunity

Whitanity

Abuse or misuse of Christianity to support the notion of white supremacy

Proselytism

Attempt to convert somewhat to believe something they do not believe in

Labeling

Externally determining what something is, providing a meaning and value to things; very influential

Power to Define

Allows someone to define the meaning of something in terms of crime and justice

Blaming the Victim

Creating a reason for why something happened to the person

Conceptual Incarceration

Being trapped by foreign ideas

3 Denials of Oppression

1) Doesn't exist

2) Doesn't affect me; I'm not responsible

3) Offer a solution thats ineffective and maintains oppression

3 Forms of Legitimation

God

Nature

Blame the Victim

Accomodating Difference

Assimilation

Integration

Pluralism

Violence

Relates to Malcolm X

Counter Violence

Relating to Martin Luther King Jr.

Worms Eye View

View from the oppressed

Birds Eye View

View from the oppressor

Quietism

When the oppressed feels like change is impossible

Ethnic Suffering

Things that happened in the past carry forward and effect the present and future; Negative, Enormous

Assimilation

Two or more things that come together to eradicate difference; to become like; presupposing inequality

Integration

The progress of accommodating difference; pre-supposes coequality (both things become new)

Pluralism

Being allowed to maintain form and identity; no attempt to eradicate difference; establish coequality

ALBD: Grant

The teacher who is helping Jeffferson die with dignity.

ALBD: Jefferson

The innocent man who was accused of murder and called a hog.

ALBD: Miss Emma

Jefferson's god mother who asks Grant to help Jefferson die with dignity.

ALBD: Auntie

Grant's aunt

ALBD: Vivianne

Grant's girlfriend.

ALBD: Deputy Paul

becomes friends with Grant. patrols the jail Jefferson is at

Ernest Gains

Author of "A Lesson Before Dying"

Chinua Achebe

Author of "Things Fall Apart"

Spike Lee

Director and main character of "Do the Right Thing"

TFA: Ikemefuna

The child stolen from the village who was defeated by Umuofia

TFA Okonkwo

Main character of TFA who committed suicide.

Racism

Social Prejudice with power

Nigeria

Where TFA takes place

Ekwefi

Okonkwo's second wife

Yams

Kings crop

Who was the first missionary

Mr. Brown

Why does Okonkwo kill him self

The village has assimilated

Who did the villagers sacrafice to

the oracle

Who was Ikemefuma

The boy surrended by the rival village

Who kills ikemefuma

Okonkwo