race

• Food insecurity is a problem that affects millions of people around the world.
• Old racism is outward and overt, undeniably racist, and is legitimized by the state.
• Reconstruction refers to the period after the Civil War.
• New Racism is a system that predates the old racism.
• Jim Crow is a form of racist legislation that enforced segregation and overt racism.
• The Civil Rights Era spanned from 1941-1968, with key events including Brown v Board, the MLK I have a Dream Speech, and the Selma to Montgomery campaign to ensure African Americans had the right to vote.
• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is a sociologist who coined the term colorblind racism to refer to “New Racism” as a subtle form of racism.
• Racism without racist racial discourse is a concept coined by Bonilla-Silva.
• Race neutrality is the disregard of race.
• Colorblind racism (CBR) is the assertion that equal opportunity minimizes the reality of racism in favor of individual or cultural explanations for equality.
• Symbolic racism, coined by McConay and Hough in 1976, is a form of racism that is subtle and happens through denial and ignorance by asserting that the playing field is now equal because overt racist policy have been eradicated.
• Abstract liberalism, as described by Bonilla-Silva, is an ideology that strives for meritocracy and equal opportunity for success, but it is abstract because it does not reflect reality.
• Naturalization is a central frame where Bonilla-Silva describes that white people will explain racial phenomenon as a natural occurrence.
• Cultural racism, as described by Bonilla-Silva, is the most traditionally racist form of racism because it makes assertions about cultural differences and assumes it to be fact.
• Minimization of racism is a rhetorical strategy to downplay the effects of racism.
• Styles of CBR include through rhetoric, semantic moves, projections, and us vs them.
• Race is embodied in social inequality.
• Cortisol is a hormone released during stress.
• Food insecurity is when someone goes without food for an extended period of time and or does not know when they will receive their next meal.
• In Chicago, there was 1 treatment center in the town where most black women lived, leading to them being more likely to get cancer because they were more likely to go untreated for cancer.
• Short term release of cortisol can aid with memory, attentiveness, and immunity.
• Racial genetics is when researchers are trying to make race genetics.
• SNAP is a food purchasing program that allows individuals in poverty to purchase food.
• Black men were more likely to have “essential worker” jobs so they were more likely to get Covid as they were predisposed.
• TANF is a temporary assistance for needy families program.
• The body’s response to stress is to release cortisol.
• Vigilance persistence is being aware and on guard.
• Long term release of cortisol can lead to poor cognitive function and adverse effects to immunity.
• Skin-deep resilience should be temporary - those who have reached their life goals can still experience excess death.
• Naive reductionism is when researchers reduce race to human biology as a premise for explaining human biological variation.
• The weathering hypothesis states that people of color overwork, they are constantly stressed out because of their environment which causes them to have adverse health effects.
• Gravlee states that we must expand on race rather than reducing it to human biology.
• John Henry is a folklore character - He was a freed black male slave,he was the fastest railroad worker and was tested against a machine and he was so tired from racing the machine that he died.
• White people use diminutives to soften their racial blows.
• Race is a social construct that has biological effects.
• Bowen states that racism and hunger are the structural roots of food insecurity.
• High effort coping strategies from the poor require tenacity, vigor, mental and physical purpose, and a strong work ethic.
• Krieger’s eco social theory outlines how research methods must address the lived realities of discrimination by using multiple levels of analysis and developmental life course perspectives.
• Intergenerational trauma is trauma experienced overtime and passed on overtime through generations.
• John Henry is a folklore character who was a freed black male slave, known as the fastest railroad worker, and was tested against a machine, dying from exhaustion.