Midterm

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Racial Formation

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The process in which race operates as a central axis of social relations, which then determine social, economic, and political institutions and practices

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Social Death

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Means "enslavement" loss of identity, loss of community, finality of member in a human community- children, etc

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Residential Segregation

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is an insidious and persistent fact of American life. Discrimination on the basis of race, while on the decline according to some estimates, continue to pervade nearly every aspect of the housing market in the United States

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Ethnicity

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The fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition

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Racial Hierarchy

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The belief that some racial groups are either superior or inferior to other racial groups. The groups perceived to have the most power and authority are at the top of the racial hierarchy, while the groups perceived to be inferior are at the bottom

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Racial Formations

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Omi and Winant, The process in which race operates as a central axis of social relations, which then determine social, economic, and political institutions and practices.

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Colonialism

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The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically

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Five Points

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19th century neighborhood in NYC

Location where african americans and irish immigrants lived together in notorious "slum."

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New York Draft Riots of 1863

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Irish and German immigrants were well represented as rioters during the violent uprising in the summer of 1863 during which african american New Yorkers were targets of mob violence.

Largest civil and racial insurrection in the American history, aside from the Civil War itself

Estimates of death toll as high as 120 people were killed.

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US Census and Racial Cateogries

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Self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity

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White Privilege

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is a set of advantages and/ or immunities that white people benefit from on a daily basis beyond those common to all others. It can exist without white people's conscious knowledge of its presence and it helps to maintain the racial hierarchy in this country

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Possessive investment in whiteness

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George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation, employment, housing and health care for minorities. Reaching beyond the black/ white binary, Lipsitz shows how whiteness works in respect to Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.

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Color-Blind Racism

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Race talk= white Americans try to move away from racist speech

But Not racist attitudes

Black Americans in contact= Call it as they see it

Similar to W.E.B. du Bois

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Jim Crow era racism

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Ended with the civil rights era

A practice or policy of segregating or discriminating against blacks, as in public places, public vehicles, or employment

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Institutional Racism

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Any action, intentional or unintentional, that is based on race or skin color and that subordinates an individual or group based on skin color or race is racism.