Race And Ethnicity- Chap 13

Front 1

minority group

Back 1

a subordinate group whose members, even if they represent a numeric majority, have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs

Front 2

racial group

Back 2

a group that is set apart from others because of physical differences that have taken on social significance

Front 3

ethnic group

Back 3

a group that is set apart from others primarily because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns

Front 4

racial formation

Back 4

a sociohistorical process in which racial categories are created, inhibited, transformed, and destroyed

Front 5

stereotype

Back 5

an unreliable generalization about all members of a group that does not recognized individual differences within the group

Front 6

prejudice

Back 6

a negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority

Front 7

racism

Back 7

the belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior

Front 8

color-blind racism

Back 8

the use of race-neutral principles to perpetuate a racially unequal status quo

Front 9

discrimination

Back 9

the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons

Front 10

hate crime

Back 10

a criminal offense committed because of the offender's bias against an individual based on race, gender, religion, ethnicity, national origin, or sexual orientation

Front 11

racial profiling

Back 11

any police-initiated action based on race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than on a person's behavior

Front 12

affirmative action

Back 12

positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities

Front 13

exploitation theory

Back 13

a belief that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism

Front 14

contact hypothesis

Back 14

the theory that in cooperative circumstances interracial contact between people of equal status will reduce prejudice

Front 15

genocide

Back 15

the deliberate, systematic killing of an entire people or nation

Front 16

expulsion

Back 16

the systematic removal of a group from society

Front 17

amalgamation

Back 17

the process through which a majority group and a minority group combine to forma new group

Front 18

assimilation

Back 18

the process through which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture

Front 19

segregation

Back 19

the physical separation of two groups of people in terms of residence, workplace, and social events; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group

Front 20

apartheid

Back 20

a former policy of South African government, designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites

Front 21

pluralism

Back 21

mutual respect for one another's cultures among the various groups in a society, which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice

Front 22

Black power

Back 22

a political philosophy, promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s, that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions

Front 23

model or ideal minority

Back 23

a subordinate group whose members supposedly have succeeded economically, socially, and educationally despite past prejudice and discrimination

Front 24

anti-Semitism

Back 24

Anti-Jewish prejudice

Front 25

symbolic ethnicity

Back 25

an ethnic identity that emphasized concerns such as ethnic food or political issues rather than deeper ties to one's ethnic heritage