Soc. Sucks

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does soc suck?

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yea.

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Enfranchisement

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having the right to vote

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disenfranchisement

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losing or being denied the right to vote

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white privilege

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a

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suffrage

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-The right to vote or the free exercise of that right
-Sometimes referred to as “political franchise” or just “the franchise”

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"Bloody Sunday"

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Alabama state troopers attack the people marching from Selma to Montgomery in a peaceful protest against the state’s discriminatory policies.

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Voting Rights Act

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-Codifies and effectuates promises of 15th Amendment.
-Banned literacy requirements for voting in AL, AK, AZ, GA, LA, NS, SC, TX, and VA, and large parts of NC
-Provided for multilingual balloting
-overtime black to white percentage ratios evened out

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covered jurisdictions

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The right and power to interpret and apply the law: courts having jurisdiction in this district.

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preclearance

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prohibited changes to procedures in covered jurisdictions without approval of three-judge or US attorney general

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South Carolina v. Katzenbach

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When the supreme court upheld the voting rights act (1965)

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descriptive representation

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representatives are in some sense typical of the larger class of persons to which they belong

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gerrymandering

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any for of redistricting in which electoral district or constituency boundaries are manipulated for an electoral advantage
-Illegal if it dilutes minority voting power

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voter caging

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the practice of sending non-forward able direct mail and registered voters and using the returned mail to compile lists of voters for the purpose of challenging their eligibility vote.

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purge (re: voter registration lists)

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removal of inelible voters (dead voters, convicts)
used to discriminate, no set standard

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voter ID laws

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requires voters to bring ID to polls.
IDs can be passports, drivers licenses, IDs. They cost money.

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felon disenfranchisement

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prohibiting persons from voting based on the fact that they have been convicted of a felony

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theft

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taking of stuff without personal contact/w/ contact it considered burglary

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simple assault

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Simple assault is an attack without a weapon resulting in either no injury, minor injury (such as bruises, black eyes, cuts, scratches, or swelling), or in undetermined injury requiring less than two days hospitalization. It also includes attempted assault without a weapon.
-it is more common than aggravated assault, but is declining around the same rate

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aggravated assault

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an attack or attempted attack with a weapon, regardless of whether or not an injury occurred, and attack without a weapon when serious injury resulted.
-is less the simple assault and decreasing

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Gregg v. Georgia (1976)

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made the death penalty legal.

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racial profiling -- know both definitions

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If you think it's good- criminal profiling that incorporates race as a single factor among many for a holistic assesment of possible criminal suspects
(if you think it's bad)- any police or private security practice in which a person is treated as a suspect because of his or her race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion.

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driving while black/brown ("DWB")

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when blacks/browns are pulled over and claim to be pulled over for DWB

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hit rate

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the rate at which somebody/minority group gets pulled over and has illegal drugs on them or whatever is being looked for. minorities have a low hit rate

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prenatal care

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medical care recommended for women before and during pregnancy
-Low Birth Weight and congenital anomalies  Higher in Blacks and Native Americans because they do not have access to good pre-natal care all the time

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preventive care

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set of measures taken in advance of symptoms to prevent illness or injury.
-Minorities less able to afford it

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contagious disease

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a potential cause of death in non-industrial (third world) countries.

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chronic disease

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cause of death in industrial societies. from eating more fat and exercising less. pneumonia is more prevalent among minorities: smoking, air pollution, poor nutrition, overcrowding.

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defragmentation

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defragmenting healthcare plans would reduce health care disparities as would increasing proportion of minority doctors, incr. stability of doctor-patient relationships, more multilingual doctors and better interpretation services, and more resources to investigate discrimination.

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environmental racism

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the process where by environmental decisions actions and policies result in racial discrimination or the creation of racial advantages

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Executive Order #12898

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february 11, 1994
two functions: Identify way federal activities disproportionately harm minorities and low income communities via environment
-provide minorities and low-income communities w/greater information about environmental risks and greater resources to reduce their effects.

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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

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(CERCLA) a.k.a. "the superfund Act"
-created to protect people, families, communities and others from heavily contaminated toxic waste sites that have been abandoned

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Universal Suffrage

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the right to vote is not restricted by race, gender, financial status, etc.
o Can discriminate on basis of citizenship, age, competence, or criminal conviction