English 12 - TBIAR & Wheels

dominant culture

the group of people in society who hold the most power and are often (but not always) in the majority.

• in charge of institutions or have the most capability to influence institions

• establish cultural norms that everyone must follow
  

social identity

identity defines how you relates to other people in society or are perceived by others → is both internal and external

privilege

determines the benefits you receive due to how close you are to the dominant culture

intersectionality

how our social identities intertwine and compile, defining how we experience the world and how the world perceives us (ex. a black woman would be subject to more prejudices based on being both black and a woman than she would if she was white)

• Kimberle Crenshaw, a Black female lawyer, and civil rights activist, was the first to use this term

racism

personal prejudice and bias AND the systemic misuse and abuse of power by institutions

stereotypes

broad generalizations/assumptions cast upon a group of people that dismisses their complexity as humans

example of racism

eurocentric beauty standards: the author of TBIAR repeatedly straightenig her hair to her detriment and inconvenience, and people complimenting her hair more when it’s straight

examples of institutional racism

• historical accounts of resistance movements and the neg effects of colonization being suppressed/only being told from the perspective of the dom culture

• workplace discrimination (ex. banning dreadlocks & braids)

• non-inclusive curriculums in education that only represent the dom culture

• healthcare discrimination (immigrants denied services because of their lack of citizneship, black women being 4x more likely to die from childbirth due to medcial neglect and the false notion that black women can tolerant pain better than most)

global majority

reframing the concept of a “minority”

personal racism example

author recounts a time she had a hostile and passive aggressive teacher that treated her BIPoC students unfairly

microaggression

an intentional or unintentional insult. slight, or hostile negative message to folx who don’t fit into the imaginary box of the dominant culture (ex. pressing an asian person about where they are “REALLY” from”)

personal racism reinforces and fuels institutionalized racism, example:

george zimmerman murdering and victimizing trayvon due to his preconceived notions about him as a black man

difference between race and ethnicity

race is a social construction designed to place multifacted, diverse sets of people into broad, simplified categories → primarily focuses on physical features

ethnicity is also a social construct, but it’s tied to your lineage, heritage, geographical location, language and history.

the definition of race and the race assigned to you fluctuates depending on where you are in the world. same with ethnicity.

intersectionality wheel

examine how your various social identities interact and intersect with one another: race, ethnicity gender identity, class, loanguage, religion, ability (able bodied or disabled), sexuality, mental health, age, education, body size, etc…

types of privilege in society

1. skin colour (light or dark)

2. gender (cisgender men/women or genderqueer)

3. socio-economic (family wealth or poverty)

4. formal education (post secondary or low level completion)

5. documented status (citizen or undocumented)

6. physical ability (able bodied or disabled)

7. neaurodiversity (neurotypical or neurodivergetnt)

8. sexual orientation (heterosexual or queer)

9. physical appearance (normative or non-normative)

10. mental health (robust or vulnerable)

11. religion (christian or non-christian)

dualism

puttkng one thing on a pedestal at the expense of sojnething else

four factors in gender

1. sex

2. gender identity

3. gender expression

4. sexuality

wheel of power/privilege

1. citizenship: citizen → documented → undocumented

2. gender: cisgender man → cisgender woman → genderqueer/intersex

3. langauge: english → learned english →non-english monolingual

4. wealth: rich → middle class → poor

5. housing: owns property → shltered /renting → homeless

6. body size: slim → average → large

7. mental health: robust → mostly stable → vulnerable

8. neurodiversity: neurotypical → some neurodivergency → significant neurodivergence

9. sexuality: straight → gay men → rest of sexualities

10. physical ability: able-bodied → some disability → sig disability

11. formal edu: post sec → highschool edu → elementary edu

12. skin colour: white → different shades → dark

Institutions:

create laws, policies, programs, and rules. they are run by and composed by large groups of people usually part of the dom culture

history example

black panther party creating the free breakfast for children program

op·pres·sion

the state of being subject to unjust treatment or control

bi·as

prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair

anti-racism

the process of continuously and actively identifying and dismantling elemenst of personal/internalized/institutional racismm

anti-bias

treating everyone equally and considering viewpoints differnet from your own