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Jim Crow Laws |
Racial segregation laws enacted after the reconstruction period in the southwestern U.S. at state and local levels which continued in force until 1965 |
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De Jure vs. De Facto |
de jure is an expression that means "concerning law" as contrasted with de facto that means "concerning fact."
These terms are used instead of "in law" and "in practice" respectively when one is describing political or legal situations. |
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Who started the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and why? |
Ella Baker started the SNCC and it was formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement, this was one of the more radical branches of the civil rights movement. |
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Why were the 1960's called Freedom Summer? |
A campaign in the summer of 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting. The project set up dozens of freedom schools, freedom houses and community centers to aid the black population. |
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Ella Baker said "each one teach one" what did she mean? |
She stressed the need to not only politicize and mobilize people, but also consciously develop peoples capacities to be organizers and leaders in the long haul struggle for a better world. |
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Civil Rights Act |
Passed in 1964 |
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Medicalization |
The dual process by which behaviors and conditions are given medical meaning (ex. pregnancy and menopause, women's reproductive hormones in general) and social norms are enforced by utilizing medical practices to eliminate or control deviance.
AKA: Illness as a social deviation: to be sick or in need of treatment is to be deviant Illness as a psychological event; to be sick or in need of treatment is the result of subconscious desire. Cure by will. |
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How have the functions of Women's bodies been medicalized? |
Reissman's article uses pregnancy, abortion, and contraception as evidence for her argument exploring why women and reproductive processes are prone to medicalization.
Claims that women are biologically, socially, and psychologically susceptible to the expansion of medical markets. |
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Pink-Collar Work |
personal-service oriented jobs in the service industry waiting on tables, working in retail, nursing, teaching |
