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Institutional Racism
Institutions and social dynamics that may seem race-neutral but actually disadvantage minority groups
Collective Resistance
Organized efforts to change a power hierarchy on the part of a less-powerful group in a society
Prejudice
thoughts and feelings about an ethnic or racial group
Discrimination
harmful or negative acts (not mere thoughts) against people deemed inferior on the basis of their racial category without regard to their individual merit
Subaltern
Describes a subordinate, oppressed group of people
Genocide
The mass killings of a group of people on racial, ethnic or religious traits
Pluralism
The presence and engaged coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society
Segregation
The legal or social practice of separating people on the basis of their race or ethnicity
Primordialism
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
Straight Line Assimilation
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
Symbolic Ethnicity
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
Ethnicity
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
Racialization
the formation of a new racial identity in which ideological boundaries of difference are drawn around a formerly unnoticed group of people
One-Drop-Rule
The belief that one drop of "black blood" makes a person black, a concept that evolved from US laws forbidding misscegregation
Miscegregation
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.
Eugenics
Literally meaning well born; the theory of controlling the fertility of populations to influence inheritable traits passed on from generation to generation
Nativism
Movement to protect and preserve indigenous land or culture from the allegedly dangerous and polluting effects of new immigrants
Social Darwinism
The application of Darwinian ideas to society namely the evolutionary survival of the fittest
Scientific racism
19th century theories of race that characterize a period of feverish investigation into the origins explanations and classification of race
Ethnocentrism
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
Racism
The belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits
Race
A group of people who share a set of characteristics typically but not always physical ones and are said to share a common bloodline