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22 Cards in this Set
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Institutional Racism
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Institutions and social dynamics that may seem race-neutral but actually disadvantage minority groups
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Collective Resistance
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Organized efforts to change a power hierarchy on the part of a less-powerful group in a society
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Prejudice
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thoughts and feelings about an ethnic or racial group
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Discrimination
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harmful or negative acts (not mere thoughts) against people deemed inferior on the basis of their racial category without regard to their individual merit
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Subaltern
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Describes a subordinate, oppressed group of people
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Genocide
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The mass killings of a group of people on racial, ethnic or religious traits
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Pluralism
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The presence and engaged coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society
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Segregation
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The legal or social practice of separating people on the basis of their race or ethnicity
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Primordialism
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Clifford Geertz term to explain the strength of ethnic ties because they are fixed in deeply felt or primordial ties to one's homeland or culture
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Straight Line Assimilation
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Robert Park's 1920s universal and linear model for how immigrants assimilate: they first arrive, then settle in, and achieve full assimilation in a homogenous country
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Symbolic Ethnicity
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A nationality, not in the sense of carrying the rights and duties of citizenships but of identifying with past or future nationality. For later generations of white ethnic, something not constraining but easily expressed, with no risk of stigma and all the pleasures of feeling like an individual
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Ethnicity
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One's ethnic quality or affiliation. It is voluntary, self defined, nonhierarchal, fluid, and multiple and based on cultural differences, not physical ones per say
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Racialization
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the formation of a new racial identity in which ideological boundaries of difference are drawn around a formerly unnoticed group of people
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One-Drop-Rule
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The belief that one drop of "black blood" makes a person black, a concept that evolved from US laws forbidding misscegregation
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Miscegregation
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The technical term for interracial marriage; literally meaning "a mixing of kinds"; it is politically and historically charged- sociologists generally prefer exonogamy or out marriage.
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Eugenics
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Literally meaning well born; the theory of controlling the fertility of populations to influence inheritable traits passed on from generation to generation
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Nativism
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Movement to protect and preserve indigenous land or culture from the allegedly dangerous and polluting effects of new immigrants
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Social Darwinism
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The application of Darwinian ideas to society namely the evolutionary survival of the fittest
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Scientific racism
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19th century theories of race that characterize a period of feverish investigation into the origins explanations and classification of race
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Ethnocentrism
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The belief that one's own culture or group is superior to others and a tendency to view all other cultures from the perspective of one's own
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Racism
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The belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits
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Race
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A group of people who share a set of characteristics typically but not always physical ones and are said to share a common bloodline
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