What is race?

What does race often inspire?

• powerful ideas for better or worse

• social construct or scientific facts

• uneasiness, fear, and violence

Why do people believe stereotypes?

• We all have biases about some groups because of the limited information we've been exposed to

• Some stereotypes have a kernel of truth so we want to believe them.

• Because we are bad people and we want that misinformation.

What did the American Anthropological Association declare in 1998?

• Race is more than just stereotypes.

• The concept of race has no scientific validity.

• Race exists in the natural world.

A belief or statement taken for granted without proof.

• prejudice

• assumption

• exist

Open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected

• biases

• assumption

• vulnerable

The state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.

• disenfranchisement

• alter

• Empowerment

Unfair and untrue beliefs or ideas of what a particular type of person or thing is like

• validity

• race

• stereotypes

An organizing idea or concept created by people and accepted by most members of society

• social construct

• stereotypes

• assumption