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22 Cards in this Set
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a group of people who share a set of characteristics-typically physical ones-and are said to share a common bloodline
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race
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the belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits
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racism
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nineteenth century theories of race that characterize a period of feverish investigation into the origins, explanations, and classifications of race
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scientific racism
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the belief that one's own culture or group is superior to others and the tendency to view all other cultures from the perspective of one's own
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ethnocentrism
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the notion that everyone is created equal in the eyes of God
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Ontological equality
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the application of Darwinian ideas to society, namely, the evolutionary "survival of the fittest"
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Social darwinism
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literally meaning "well born" the theory of controlling the fertility of populations to influence inheritable traits passed on from generation to generation
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eugenics
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movement to protect and preserve indigenous land or culture from the so-called dangerous and polluting effects of new immigrants
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nativism
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the belief that "one drop" of black blood makes a person black, a concept that evolved from US laws forbidding miscegenation
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One-drop rule
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the technical term for multiracial marriage; "a mixing of kinds"; it is politically and historically charged-sociologists generally prefer exogamy or outmarriage
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miscegenation
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the formation of new racial identity, in which new ideological boundaries of difference are drawn around a formerly unnoticed group of people
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racialization
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one's ethnic quality or affiliation; voluntary, self-defined, nonhierarchal, fluid, and multiple
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ethnicity
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a nationality, not in the sense of carrying the rights and duties of citizenship but identifying with a past or future nationality
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symbolic ethnicity
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Robert Parks's 1920 universal and linear model for how immigrants assimilate
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straight-line assimilation
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Clifford Geertz's term to explain the persistence of ethnic ties because they are fixed in deeply felt or primordial ties to one's homeland culture
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primordialism
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the presence and engaged coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society
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pluralism
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the legal or social practice of separating people on the basis of their race or ethnicity
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segregation
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the mass killing of a group of people
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genocide
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describes a subordinate, oppressed group of people
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subaltern
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an organized effort to change a power hierarchy on the part of a less-powerful group in a society
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collective resistance
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thoughts and feelings about an ethnic or racial group
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prejudice
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harmful or negative acts against people deemed inferior on the basis of their racial category without regard to thier individual merit
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discrimination
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