AFAM 3711 Midterm Review

stereotype threat: stifling risk of confirming negative stereotypes about one's cultural group culturally relevant pedagogy: centering student cultures, lesson usefulness, & broad academic success low expectation cycles: poor teacher beliefs, actions causing student beliefs, actions and performance role modeling: students to graduate and enter college more when reflected by some of their teachers Doll studies: white doll choice showed “badge of inferiority” effect of pre Brown v. Bd. school segregation slavery literacy ban: broad prohibition against teaching enslaved people to read as means of control Reconstruction education: Black legislators passed rt to publ educ during 12 yrs of army-protected vote Brown v. Bd.: Supreme Court invalidated school segregation as unconstitutional under 14Am equal prot. Indian boarding schools: used on reservations to erase Indian culture of youth segregation academies: Daughters of the Confederacy used religious schools to reinstate segregation Bacon’s Rebellion: multicultural class rebellion of 1676; Brit. monarch created racial laws to prevent again manifest destiny: xenophobic belief that Europeans pre-ordained to take Indian land in Americas indentured servitude: classist contract system of trip to US and land for 4-7 years of brutal labor coverture: Brit & US law: women w/o rts - solely daughter, wife and mother roles under father, husband enslavement: modern form was uniquely permanent, racial, & hereditary through mother Black Wall Street: one of dozens of successful Black towns burned down by segregationists Montgomery Bus Boycott: successful protest against bus segregation through 1 yr of economic w/drawal Progress Plaza: successful Black Philadelphia shopping center using cooperative group economics intersectionality: overlaps of identities and discrimination create unique realities requiring specific study Benezet (Anthony): Quaker who created the first school for African Americans Quaker Antislavery Protest: 1688, first antislavery publication Star Spangled Banner: 3rd verse is gleeful about death to Black loyalist soldiers offered British freedom Kerner Report: 1968, US found still separate and unequal after MLK assassination and unrest Moynihan Report: 1969, correlated single parent households with urban family poverty and immobility Federal poverty guidelines: basis for federal assistance programs that increases with inflation & fam size convict leasing: South exploited 13th Am prison exception, reinstate slavery and though petty crime labor reparations: repayment to a African Americans for enslavement and other government wrongs compensated emancipation: repayment the Union granted to plantation owners to repay for freed people racially distinct poverty: Black poverty is longer in duration and spatially more concentrated concentrated poverty: 30+% of a neighborhood is poor