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Study Guide Human Diversity
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Social Work
Undergraduate 3
03/02/2015

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Five categories of the multicultural spectrum
Definition
Racism and ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation, people with disabilities.
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Understand intersectionality
Definition
We can have multiple identities.
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Five components of culture found in all definitions of culture.
Definition
Culture is learned, localized, patterned, evaluative, incorporates change.
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origination of concepts of culture and understanding
Definition
anthropology
Term
Oppression and what links all forms together
Definition
Economic, power, and control.
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Know the definition of Internalized oppression
Definition
Is defined as acceptance by members of stigmatized races of negative messages about their own abilities and intrinsic worth.
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Concept of Privilege
Definition
Unpacking the invisible backpack of white privilege.
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Five faces of oppression:
Definition
Exploitation, Marginalization, Powerlessness, Cultural Imperialism, and Violence.
Term
Exploitation
Definition
Refers to those processes whereby the dominant group accumulates and maintains status, power, and assets from the energy and labor expended by subordinate groups.
Example: Migrant laborers, primarily people of color, harvest produce for low wages with few or no benefits. This keeps the cost of produce low.
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Marginalization
Definition
Is the expulsion of Whole groups of people from mainstream society that occurs when dominant groups are defined as the norm.
Example: a building that doesn't have accommodations for someone on a wheelchair.
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Powerlessness
Definition
Marginalized group's lack of authority, status, and sense of self.
Example: single mother's receiving public assistance are treated with disrespect.
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Cultural Imperialism
Definition
The culture and experience of the dominant group is established as the norm.
Example: Relationships in nonwhite communities are judged by white middle-class norms and values.
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Violence
Definition
Groups are subjected to physical violence, harassment, ridicule, intimidation, and stigmatization.
Example: gay youths are often verbally harassed and physically threatened I'm their school.
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3 levels of racism
Definition
Individual, institutional, internalized.
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Critical Consciousness
Definition
The ability to question one's history and social position for the purpose of confronting inequality- and sensitivity provide a base for the development of critical thinking.
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Concept and power of microaggressios:
Definition
Microassult, Microinsult, and Microinvalidation.
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Microassult
Definition
Explicit, verbal or nonverbal attack meant to hurt the victim through name calling, avoiding behavior or purposeful discriminatory actions.
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Microinsult
Definition
Communications that convey rudeness, insensitivity, and demean a person's racial heritage/identity.
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Microinvalidation
Definition
Communications that exclude, negate or nullify the person's thoughts, feelings, or experience.
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Loving V. Virginia
Definition
1967 Legalization of interracial marriage.
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Hegemony
Definition
Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others.
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Myth of Meritocracy
Definition
Privilege is earned.
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Historical trauma
Definition
Collective complex trauma inflicted on a group of people who share a specific group identify or affiliation-ethnicity, nationality, and religious affiliation.
Term
Social identity
Definition
How we are seen by society and placed into groups.
Term
Three types of self-awareness:
Definition
Develop awareness of own identity
Identity development in multiple, dimensions.
Increased awareness of economic and social strictures of oppression as a foundation for activism.
Term
Know definition of
Critical reflectivity
Definition
Allows one to acknowledge oneself as both affecting and being affected by society and requires analysis and social structures.
Term
"one-drop rule"
Definition
Any person with any African ancestry is black and can never be considered white.
Term
The American psych and race
Definition
The social sciences have come to reject biological notions of race and now embrace the concept of race as a social construction.
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Critical Multiculturalism
Definition
It is the concept that allows us to move beyond the goal of learning about and appreciating diversity to engage in an exploration of the multiple and complex power relations of difference and the mechanisms of oppression that operate In society.
Term
2010 Census
Definition
Happens every 10years. Government trying to reflect changing social understanding of race and give right to self-identity.
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Transparency phenomena
Definition
Whiteness makes one invisible/transparent. White considered the norm by which all others are judged. Whites don't have to think about their own race.
Term
4 Historical Events that led to USA conceptualization of multiracial identity
Definition
Slavery
Legalization of interracial Marriage (Livingston vs. Virginia 1967)
2000 Census
Election of President Obama as a mixed racial person.
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Methodological research challenges and four recommended strategies for multiracial research:
Definition
More recent/inclusive/ecological based theories of multiracial identity to guide methodology.
More inclusive sampling.
More culturally sensitive measures/instrumentation.
Include multiracial person on research team.
Term
Key's to Self-Sufficiency
Definition
Educational attainment
Health insurance
Adequate and affordable child care
Stable jobs
Incomes that pay a living wage
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Lorde
Definition
"There is no hierarchy of oppression".
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Rosaldo
Definition
"Questions of Culture seem to touch a nerve because they quickly become anguished questions of identity".
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