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Genocide
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the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group
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Anglo-Conformity
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As a nation founded by European immigrants, the United States had to grapple with the concept of what it means to be an American. In seeking to become American, many immigrants adopted one model of assimilation
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Separatism
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advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group
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Deindustrialization
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is a process of social and economic change to a country's political economy in which there is the removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a country or region
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Restrictive covenant
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a type of real covenant, a legal obligation imposed in a deed by the seller upon the buyer of real estate to do or not to do something
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redlining
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practice of denying, or increasing the cost of service
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional
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Milliken v. Bradley
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t United States Supreme Court case dealing with the planned desegregation busing of public school students
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Proposition 13
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People's Initiative to Limit Property Taxation
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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
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Supreme Court of the United States on the permissible scopefactors in an admissions program, but only for the purpose of improving the learning environment through diversity in accordance with the university's constitutionally protected First Amendment right to Academic Freedom
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Hopwood v. Texas
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was the first successful legal challenge to a university's affirmative action policy in student admissions
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Transitional bilingual education
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educational theory that states that children can most easily acquire fluency in a second language by first acquiring fluency in their native language
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Maintenance Bilingual Education
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Late-Exit Bilingual Education are founded on the idea that it is most effective for students to be exposed to their home languages for longer before the class becomes English-only.
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expulsion
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removing a student from the institution for violating rules
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Cultural assimilation
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demographic multi-ethnicity that supports or promotes the assimilation of ethnic minorities into the dominant culture.
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amalgamation
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a now largely archaic term for the interbreeding of people of different ethnicities and "races"
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capital flight
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occurs when assets and/or money rapidly flow out of a country, due to an economic event
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Racial steering
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real estate brokers guide prospective home buyers towards or away from certain neighborhoods based on their race.
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Shelley v. Kraemer
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States Supreme Court case which held that courts could not enforce racial covenants on real estate.
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Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
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busing of students to promote integration in public schools. After a first trial going to the Board of Education, the Court held that busing was an appropriate remedy for the problem of racial imbalance among schools
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San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
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The Supreme Court's decision held that a school-financing system based on local property taxes was not an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause
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Affirmative action
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take factors including "race, color, religion, gender , or national origin"[1] into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group
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Grutter v. Bollinger
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States Supreme Court upheld the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Michigan Law School.
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immersion
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absorbing involvement
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Proposition 227
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The bill's intention was to educate Limited English Proficiency students in a rapid, one-year program
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Cosmopolitanism
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all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality.
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blockbusting
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business practice of U.S. real estate agents and building developers meant to encourage white property owners to sell their houses at a loss bc of minorities
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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separate but equal
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Reverse discrimination
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controversial specific form of discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group
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California Proposition 209
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prohibit public institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity
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Gratz v. Bollinger
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Supreme Court ruled the university's point system was too mechanistic in its use of race as a factor in admissions, and was therefore unconstitutiona
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Lau v. Nichols
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The students claimed that they were not receiving special help in school due to their inability to speak English
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