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21 Cards in this Set
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affirmative action |
a variety of policies and programs that aim to avoid discrimination and redress past discrimination through the active recruitment of qualified minorities for jobs, promotions, and educational oppotunities |
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amalgamation |
the process by which a majority and a minority group blend or mix to from a new group |
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assimilation |
the process by which members of a minority group come to adopt the culture of the majority group |
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color-blind racism |
a form of bias in which the promotion of race neutrality helps to maintain existing racial and ethnic inequality |
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discrimination |
unequal treatment that gives advantages to one group of people over another without justifiable cause |
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ETHINICITY |
shared cultural heritage often deriving from a common ancestry and homeland |
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genocide |
the systematic killing of a group of people, based on their race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion |
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institutional discrimination |
unequal treatment that results from the structural organization, policies, and procedures of social institutions such as government, businesses, and school |
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majority group |
a collection of people who enjoy privileges and have more access to power because of identifiable physical and cultural characteristics |
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minority group |
a collection of people who suffer disadvantages and have less power because of identifiable physical or cultural characteristics |
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pluralism |
a situation in which distinct ethnic and racial groups coexist or equal terms and have equal social standing |
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prejudice |
a "pre-judge" someone or some group negatively based on inadequate information |
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race |
a category of people widely perceived as sharing socially significant physical characteristics such as skin color |
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racial essentialism |
the idea that supposedly natural and immutable differences separate the race |
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racialization of the state |
the implementation of government and private-sector policies that discriminated against minorities and provide Whites with numerous advantages |
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racism |
the belief that one race is inherently superior to another |
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scapegoat |
an individual or a group of people falsely blamed for a negative situation |
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segregation |
keeping distinct social groups physically and socially separate and unequal |
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split labor market theory |
the theory that ethnic and racial conflicts often emerge when two racial or ethnic groups compete for the same jobs |
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stereotypes |
exaggerated, distorted, or untrue generalizations about categories of people that do not acknowledge individual variation |
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transnational migrants |
immigrants who retain strong personal, cultural, and economic ties to both their country of birth and their newly adopted home. |
