Chapter 12

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Race

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The biological classification of human groups with similar physical characteristics. This may include skin color, facial features, hair texture, e.t.c

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Dominant group

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A category of people whose values, language, customs, and traditions are practice and enforced in a given society

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Prejudice

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A positive or negative bias toward a group or category of people

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Discrimination

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An action that disqualifies members of a particular group from social opportunities including college admission, employment, housing, bank loans, e.t.c

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Internal colonialism

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The policy of a dominant group exploiting minority groups within a nation or territory for political or economic gain. Example: slavery

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Jim Crow laws

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A series of segregation laws passed by southern state legislators after the Civil War to ensure segregation at the state level

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Institutional discrimination

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often built into society's social structure. This practice may be intentional or unintentional

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Assimilation

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The process in which a minority group is absorbed into the larger society. This can be either voluntary or forced experience

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Racial formation

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The process in which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed

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Scapegoat

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A person or category of people wrongly blamed for the problems of others

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Genocide

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The systematic murder of a population for biological, political, religious, territorial, and economic reasons