Prof. Davila's Latino Sociology Midterm 1 Feb 27th 2012

It varies by social context, history and is influenced by social structure and human agency

A way of identifying/perceiving

It generalizes, ignores distinctions, refers to Spain and portugal, bases its distinction on phenotype and places an emphasis on its colonizers

Refers to Latinoamerica as a national origin
Most excepted term for identification

An umbrella term encompassing language, world region, or phenotype/race;encompasses multiple racial/ethnic groups
Advantages: unity in group of people, shared experience and promotes solidarity and political power
Disadvantages: loses uniqueness, changes the way in which they are received in the US

The Cosmic Race: of mixed/blended origin

Assimilated to North American society, forgetting your roots and not acknowledging/recognizing your race/ethnicity

Phenotypes, language, world religion, political power, shared experiences

Making people the same although they are not

Silencing others, not recognizing their existence when not like the dominant group

Relations between the same ethnic group

Relations between different ethnic groups in order to find commonalities in the same struggles to strengthen oneself

(Sometimes corporate) way of taking aspects, objects, or traditions of another's culture and using it to your advantage (money, "enriching" oneself with uniqueness etc)

Taking things from a culture and using it for a different purpose or in a disrespectful manner (to one's advantage)

Derogatory term used in the 60's and 70's for 1st generation Mexican children
Became a political way of identification used to define those who identify with the Chicano rights movement

A manner of using silence to break one's tokinization ("spokesperson for race/community")

Being invisible to the crowd but when being asked to be the spokesperson for the race becoming too visible

Self-doubt in our value - internalizing our value as to whether we deserve an education, are intelligent or even belong among "whites" as educated minorities

Realizing that you are the only minority in a group of whites and feeling guilty for why you are here. (Why am I so special? Why did I survive?)

From Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands: construction of one's identity which is the hybrid formation of historically oppressed forces now joined by blood both in the sense of lineage and destruction: ability to blend two cultures

Dichotomous term for identifying people as either black or white forcing color consciousness

Socially constructed but has very real consequences, based on phenotype, people's perceptions, location and "biological characteristics" (hair texture, eyes, shape of nose etc)

Culture, customs, language, food and "non-biological traits"

Attitudes beliefs and feelings

Treatment

Institutional: Government laws practices, and practices
Personal:individuals hating other groups

Feeling of protecting one's land from "foreigners"/invaders, and those who ruin the culture of one's land

Stories or experiences of the marginalized

Storytelling of the dominant group; relies on stereotypes of other groups

Subtle verbal/non-verbal attacks towards people of color that go unnoticed and unchanged and can cause physiological and psychological stress

Categorizing people by certain demographics and this is used as a way for the government to allocate resources/aid/funding to a group of people

A person that is both Black and White

Mexican and Filipino

Black and Mexican

Black and Asian

An in between state (when referring to race)

Black and Filipino

Latino/a and Asian

Black and Chicano

Half Asian and half something else

Expression of nation-building or continual process of it, distinguishes who are inside from those outside

Mexican settlements in the US

Amount of worth of productive labor by workers that is not returned to them in the form of wages

Theory that citizens should have a voice in the enactment of laws that bind them; this is violated when political power is allocated (or not) to People of Color in general

Explains social behavior in the real world and conduct tests and refine their theories

Basic image of society that guides thinking and research

Traces educational inequality to the minority genes; blames genes
Solution: Separate minorities into their own schools and communities

Traces minority educational inequality to minority culture; cultural values and related behaviors are responsible
Solution: acculturate minorities to the values and beliefs to the dominant group

Taking on the dominant culture

Shedding one's own culture

Minorities and their families are blamed for poor academic performance
Parents don't like or share the values or beliefs of the dominant culture to succeed in education

Traces educational inequality to unequal conditions between and within minority educational institutions
Solution: Change unequal conditions at the schools for the benefit of minorities

Traces minority educational inequality to the overall social system: Socioeconomic structure is responsible
Solution: change socioeconomic system to one that is more equitable then schools will reflect equality

You come into school poor and prepared in school to take the lowest paid jobs: come in poor, leave poor and uneducated

Opposition to authority

To convey by a racial interpretation, place in a racial context, to perceive, view or experience in a racial context, categorize or differentiate on the basis of race

The attitudes, ideologies and politics associated with blatant forms of white or European dominance over "non-white" populations

Belief that Whites have the duty to expand their dominance over land

critical race theory used to reveal ways Latino/s experience race/class/gender/sexuality and acknowledging experiences related to issues of immigration status, language, ethnicity and culture

Homeland; adopted by Chicanos as a means of creating a homeland or place of origin