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22 Cards in this Set
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Social Construction |
The idea of race is not based on biological differences among people. |
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Race |
A group of people who share physical and cultural traits. |
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Racism |
race relates to physical, cultural, and social differences within a hierarchy.The practice of subordinating races believed to be inferior. |
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Ethnicities |
are group identities based on similar shared history, culture, and kinship. |
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Colonialism |
The practice of acquiring political control over another country, occupying it with settlers and exploiting it economically. |
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Genocide |
The mass killing of a group of people of a particular race. |
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Ideology |
A set of principles and ideas that benefit the dominant group. |
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Racial Microaggressions
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Daily commonplace insults and racial slights that cumulatively affect the psychological we'll being of people of color.
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Institutional Racism
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The policies, laws and institutions that reproduce racial inequalities.
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Systemic Racism |
A diverse assortment of racist practices |
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Structural Racism |
Pointing to interinstitutional interactions across time and space. |
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Racialized Social Systems |
Societies in which economic, political, social, and ideological levels are structured by placement of actors in racial categories. |
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Hegemonic |
An ideology is more than an individual prejudice. |
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Race Ideology |
Divides people into different racial groups. Serves the interest of one group |
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New Racism |
It is no longer acceptable to make overtly racist statements or to have overtly racist laws. |
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Biological Racism |
the idea that whites are genetically superior to non-whites |
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Cultural Racism |
Attributes disadvantaged racial groups" lack of prosperity to their behavior and culture rather than structural factors. |
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Color-Blind Racism |
A racial ideology that explains contemporary racial inequality as the outcome of nonracial dynamics |
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Abstract Liberalism |
Equal of opportunity or freedom of choice to rationalize racial inequality. |
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Rhetorical Strategies |
Permit whites to reproduce racism without being labeled racist. |
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Racial Project |
An effort to reorganize and redistribute resources along particular racial lines. |
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Intersectionality |
Looking at race and gender oppression simultaneously |
