Anthro Final- Race And Ethnicity

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Race

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an ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis; socially and culturally constructed- based on presumed contrasts between people, not on scientific classifications of genes.

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Brazil's Whitening of Race

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19th-early 20th century; attempt co change racial makeup of country through immigration.
Europeans- civilization, progress, superior
Africans/Asians- inferior, lazy

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Miscegenation

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belief that African blood (weaker races) would vanish through interbreeding w/ white (superior) races.

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Social Race

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race is a socio-cultural construction.
It differs according to historical, demographic and other cultural differences between countries.
Race in US- black/white
Race in Latin America- color is a matter of degree

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Phenotype

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color of ones skin

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Hypodescent

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child of parents from different races is assigned to minority racial group.

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Racial Caste System

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based on hereditary and racial position= ones race cannot change over lifetime or with change in culture, status, or wealth.

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Racial Class System

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people divided by class and race.

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Ethnicity

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affiliation with a certain ethnic group and exclusion from other ethnic groups because of this affiliation.

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Eugenics

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hereditary improvement of the human race through selective breeding.
belief that certain races (darker skinned) were inferior to other races (white)

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Racial composition in LA

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LA is the most ethnically diverse city in the United States
Only 42% of LA’s population are monolingual English speakers

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nationalities

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groups with autonomous political status to their own countries.

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diaspora

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dispersion of any people from their homeland; due to wars, genocide, migration

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Assimilation

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minority groups adopt patterns, norms of dominant culture.

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Plural Society

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(Barth 1958): a society combining ethnic contrasts, ecological specialization (use of different environmental resources, and economic interdependence of these groups.
*ethnic groups living in close contact, peacefully without assimilating

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Multiculturalism

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acceptance of cultural diversity within a country.
*citizens of the nation are socialized into dominant (national) culture practices and also minority (“ethnic”) cultural practices

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Prejudice

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devaluing a group because of assumed differences in behavior, value, capabilities, or attributes.

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Stereotype

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fixed ideas (often negative) about what members of a group are like. → how people are “supposed” to act.

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Discrimination

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policies and practices which harm a particular group and/or its members.

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De facto

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practiced, but not legally sanctioned.

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De jure

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part of law.

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Ethnic expulsion

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forcibly removing specific cultural groups from a country because they are different from a dominant group.

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refugees

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forced or voluntarily fleeing a country or region; mostly commonly due to wars or natural disasters. Frequently leads to diaspora populations in different countries

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forced assimilation

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occurs when countries ban language and customs of minority ethnic groups.