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19 Cards in this Set
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Ethnicity |
the cultural practices, norms, and values of a given community. |
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Ethnic groups share |
history and cultural practices |
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Race |
physical similarities |
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Race operates through |
both individual consciousness and institutional arrangements |
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Prejudice refers to |
Opinions or attitudes
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Discrimination refers to |
unequal treatment that limits the opportunities available to members of same group |
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Prejudice operates through |
the use of stereotype. |
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Stereotypes are |
mental categories or schemas though which we classify and evaluate others |
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Stereotypes often involve displacement..... |
the expression of anger or contempt toward groups who are not the source of those feelings. |
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Assimilation |
The process whereby immigrant groups adopt the language and lifestyle of the native-born group.
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Melting Pot |
the merging of mixing of the cultures of immigrant and native-born groups
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Pluralism (multiculturalism) |
immigrant groups maintain their ethnic culture while participating more or less fully in economic and political |
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Segregation |
the legal or physical separation of minority and dominant groups |
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legal segragation |
de jure |
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physical segragation |
de facto |
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Jim Crow Laws ("Black Codes") |
prohibited racial intermarriage and segregated public facilities, limiting interaction between whites and blacks. |
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Disenfranchisement |
denial of the right to vote |
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Denial of voting included |
poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses |
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Violence |
Racist court rulings and lynching suppressed any resistance to segragation |
