Social Justice Vocab 1

____________ can seem small, especially when they weren’t committed on purpose – but the reality is that they compound on each other when someone experiences them from multiple people, multiple times a day.

• Microaggression
• Equity
• Fairness
• Macroaggression

Because most of us consciously experience ourselves as good, moral, and decent human beings, the realization that we hold a ____________ worldview is very disturbing; thus we prefer to deny, diminish, or avoid looking at ourselves honestly.

• Biased
• Microaggression
• Equity
• Fairness

Another example  of  ____________ includes  corporations  taking  advantage  of  impoverished populations  to  deepen  their  pockets. 

• Macroaggression
• Stereotypes
• Microaggression
• Equity

Some  other  examples  of  ____________  we  experience  as community members, teachers, school leaders, and faculty are noted below: “You work hard for a woman.” “I  am  surprised  you  speak  English  so  well!  I  thought  you  wouldn’t  because  of  your name.” “You don’t seem anxious. I think it’s all in your head. Just step out of it.”

• Microaggression
• Macroaggression
• Bias
• Civil rights

____________ are characteristics imposed upon groups of people because of their race, nationality, and sexual orientation.

• Stereotypes
• Activists
• Civil Rights
• Fairness

In cases with a women protagonist authors commonly included details that reinforced ____________ of women as communal and men as agentic.

• Stereotypes
• Justice
• Access
• Macroaggression

____________ are the basic legal rights a person must possess in order to have such a status.

• Civil rights
• Biases
• Stereotypes
• Microaggression

However, many thinkers and ____________ argued that these first-generation claims were too narrow to define the scope of free and equal citizenship.

• Activists
• Civil rights
• Fairness
• Stereotypes

In general, the guiding aim of the civil rights movement of American blacks was equal inclusion, while Native American ____________ sought political self-determination.

• Activists
• Fairness
• Biases
• Stereotypes

They point out that applying the antidiscrimination norm to disability, for example, by installing ramps for ____________ to buildings or offering special education programs, requires taking account of physical or mental differences among people. 

• Access
• Equity
• Activists
• Civil rights