AASP 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Lyndon B. Johnson, Hattie Mcdaniel, Homer Plessy

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: African American Studies
• Course: AASP 100
• Professor: Shane Walsh

Document Summary

Role of racial stereotype in the black community and the. Dictionary definition: a conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image. An automatic conclusion about individuals or groups that are rooted in assumed beliefs of types of behavior, appearance, speaking. These assumptions help people to feel justified in biases towards a group and to reinforce the notions of personal and group dislike. U. s military was segregated: as well as the federal government workforce, as mandated by. Latin roots to describe types of segregation in america: de jure: (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g la(cid:449)(cid:863, this first type described the forced separation of races in public lo(cid:272)atio(cid:374)s as a (cid:373)atte(cid:396) of la(cid:449) (cid:862)(cid:396)ight o(cid:396) (cid:449)(cid:396)o(cid:374)g(cid:863) Homer plessy background: plessy was a mixed race individual, plessy thought of himself 1/8 black since his great-grandmother was from africa, was deeply involved in social activism, challe(cid:374)ged this legislatio(cid:374) o(cid:374) (cid:271)ehalf of a g(cid:396)oup (cid:272)alled the citize(cid:374)s".