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35 Cards in this Set
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What is race?
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The division of people based on physical characteristics.
(white,black,asian) |
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What is ethnicity?
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Ethnicity is the classification of people who share a common cultural, linguistic, or ancestral heritage.
(arab,german, italian, jewish, cuban, hispanic) |
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"Race is nothing but a pigment of the imagination"
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Means we classify people based off of pigment but it has a bigger meaning.
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Majority Group
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The group that has the largest population in society and holds significant power and privelage.
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Minority Group
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The group that has a smaller population and less power than the majority group. Luis Wirth assigns minority group status to people who are singled out for unequal treatment.
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Dominant Group
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The group that has the greatest power but not necessarily the greatest numbers
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Colonialism
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The imposition of control over a weak nation by a more powerful country.
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Racism
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Discrimination based on a person's race.
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Racism according to Graves
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According to graves, racism in the IS has relied on three assumptions that often go unchallenged. 1. Races exist. 2. each race has distinct genetic differences. 3. racial inequality is due to those differences.
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Genocide
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Extreme example of racism. The attempt to destroy or exterminate a pple based on their race or ethnicity. ( holocaust, rwanda)
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What are hate groups
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Organizations that promote hostility and violence towards others based on race and other factors.
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Conquest
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The domination over a group of people by a superior force. Like when a group uses its superior military to dominate another
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Annexation
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The incorporation of one territory into another. Under this system, members of ethnic andracial groups are forced to become members of a new society
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Voluntary Immigration
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The willing movement of people from one society to another.
(may be a variety of reasons why. sometimes countries arent welcoming to these immigrants) |
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INvoluntary immigration
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The forced movement of people from one society to another. ( bringing millions of african to american against their own free will)
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ethnic cleansing
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Persecution thru imprisonment, expulsion, or murder of members of an ehhnic minority by a mahority to achieve ethnic homogeneity in majority controlled territory.
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Migrant superordination
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Occurs when a more powerful group enters an area and conquers the native population.
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Indigenous superordination
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The subordination of an imigrant group to a dominate group. ( Immigrants that come to america are expected to learn all of our ways.
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Pluralistic Minorities
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Groups that enter into an area voluntarily but seek to maintain their own culture while also adapting to the dominatn group
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Assimilationist Minorities
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Groups that seek to shed their old ways to integrate themselves into mainstream society.
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Secessionist Minorities
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Groups that voluntarily seperate themselves from the dominatn group and view the dominant group with disdain, believeing hat it will corrupt the groups belief system. For examples,s AMish. They have amish schools and everything else.
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Militant Minorities
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Groups that seek the overthrow of existing systems because they see it as unjust. They may take a path of violence and war.
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Ethnic Enclaves
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Neighborhoods where people from simular cultures live togetherand assert culture distinction from the dominant group. (China town, spanish harlem)
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Prejudice
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Negative attitudes about an entire category of people
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Stereotypes
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Simplified perceptions people have of an entire group, usually based on false assumptions
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Discrimination
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Unfair treatment of people based on prejudice
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Institutional discrimination
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Maintains an advantage for the dominant group while providing the appearance of fairness to others. ( seperate but equal) Also schools in poor neighborhoods are more underfunded
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Scapegoat
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Making a unfair accusation against a person or group as the cause of a problem
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Segregation
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Forced seperation because of factors such as race, gender, or ethnicity
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Cycle of Poverty
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Generational barrier that preents poor people from breaking into the middle and upper classes.
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education
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One of the most important factors in determining income is education. With the exception of asians, minorities tend to have low educational attainment.
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Color blind racism
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The idea that racism still exists in society in more subtle ways.
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Double Consciousness
(W.E.B DuBois) |
The sense that a person must keep a foot in two worlds. One in the majority group world and one in the minority group world
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Affirmative Action
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Social policy designed to help minority groups gain opportunites through employment and education. Legal affirmative action means that aif all candidates are equal an employer or college may use minority status as a deciding factor. This is only ok if they are all qualified.
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Views on slavery
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F: Both unintended and intended. intended to bring and build wealth . however it was unintended to treat them like animals
C; Result of one group wanting to keepits advantage over another S; Just elimate slurs all together |