SCENE III TERMS

Reparation: The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to otherwise helping those who have been wronged.

Debar: exclude or prohibit(someone) from officially doing something

Peccadillor: a small, relatively unimportant offense or sin

Exonerated: absolve someone from blame for a fault or wrongdoing, especially after due consideration of the case

“La Migra”: ‘Lah-mee-grrrah’: top division of immigration police the term is primarily used by illegal immigrants and white kids.

Ineludible: inescapable

Negro/nigger act: refers to minstrel shows in the 19^th and 20^th century; it was American entertainment consisting of comedic skits and a variety of acts; whites as well as blacks in black face.

Deposition: Out of court oral testimony of a witness that is reduced to writing for later use in court or for discovery purposes.

Themes

*Pay attention to the theme of racial profiling- use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. 

SCENE II TERMS

Recapitulates- To give a brief summary of something.

Pillory & Stocks-Wooden framework with holes for the head and hands in which the offender was imprisoned and exposed to public abuse. Physical punishment involving public humiliation; victims were often exposed in a public place and scorned by passerby’s. The difference is stocks are when their feet are locked in place, and sometimes as well their hands or head, or these may be chained.

  

                 Pillory                                Stocks

Impugn-Dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of a statement or motive; call into question.

Miscegenation- Marriage or relationship between 2 people of different races

Illicit Assignation- Illicit=assignment; Assignation= forbidden by law, rules, or custom, illegal.

Causality v. Correlation- two are very closely related but different; correlation is the relation existing between phenomena and mathematical and statistical variables; causality is how closely two sets of info are closely related.

Germane- relevant, it fits in

Racial Tenor- course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; general meaning of race; racial theme/message

Yom Kippur- “Day of Atonement”, most important holiday of the Jewish year

“Color Jump on her intellect”- a way of explaining what happens when color blinds you/ race plays a role in everything.