06 Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

race

Answer 1

system to classify groups of people based on phenotypical traits

Question 2

ethnicity

Answer 2

common culture, religion, history, or ancestry shared by group of people

Question 3

race essentialism

Answer 3

belief that race is biological trait that determines people’s abilities and traits

Question 4

hypodescent

Answer 4

“one drop rule” -> if white and black, then would have to put black

Question 5

panethnicity

Answer 5

large ethnic label which encompasses many smaller but diverse subgroups -> often regional

ex) asian

Question 6

current demography of us

Answer 6

diverse, white, black, asian
subgroups within these

Question 7

projected demography of us

Answer 7

new category -> MENA (middle eastern and north african)

Question 8

1790 naturalization act

Answer 8

prevented nonwhites from naturalizing

Question 9

1870 naturalization act

Answer 9

granted birthright citizenship, ability to naturalize to african americans

Question 10

1882 chinese exclusion act

Answer 10

first major exclusionary immigration policy -> banned chinese homos intellectually disabled and anarchists

Question 11

1924 johnson reed immigration act

Answer 11

barred all immigrants from asia, set quotas for eastern and southern europeans based on their current white pop

Question 12

1965 hart celler act

Answer 12

abolished national origin quotas

Question 13

2010s-today

Answer 13

crimmigration:

Question 14

segmented assimilation

Answer 14

immigrants assimilate into different parts of society
ex) italians -> now seen as white bc they assimilated into white culture when they migrated

Question 15

de jure segregation

Answer 15

slavery, jim crow laws

Question 16

structural racism

Answer 16

de facto segregation rather than de jure
built into public policies and pieces of legislation

ex) social security, redlining, white flight

Question 17

redlining

Answer 17

denies financial services to neighborhoods based on race

Question 18

white flight

Answer 18

large scale migration of white people from diverse suburbs

Question 19

hyper selectivity

Answer 19

dual positive selectivity in which immigrants are more likely to graduate college than nonimmigrants in sending countries

Question 20

neighborhood segregation

Answer 20

segregation of people into different neighborhoods based on race or income

Question 21

deindustrialization

Answer 21

decline of region’s manufacturing industry -> can lead to job loss

Question 22

spatial mismatch

Answer 22

people live far from jobs, making it hard for them to be employed

Question 23

prejudice

Answer 23

explicit racism

Question 24

implicit bias

Answer 24

stereotypes

Question 25

model minority myth

Answer 25

stereotype of minorities with asians on top as successful well adjusted workers

Question 26

bamboo ceiling

Answer 26

describes the barriers of asian americans advancing into leadership roles