Race and Racial Inequality Flashcards
Why are there racial differential undercounts in the census?
Chaotic nature of the pandemic, unauthorized migrants’ fears, overcount of whites due to double counts
Race
a social system designed by people to categorize groups of people based on physical appearance
Ethnicity
the ethnic group a person belongs to, typically informed by cultural or traditional social and familial ties
Ancestry
ethnic heritage traced through familial/parental lines
Nationality
the country where a person hold legal citizenship
Race is not:
biological, genetic, fixed across time and space
Racial ideologies
the prevalent and commonly accepted racial schemas of a given society
How a racial schema becomes a racial ideology
commonly shared by many people in a society; exerts greatest influence over how people experience the social world, even if not most common
4 characteristics of racial ideologies
embrace that racial groups exist with different inherent characteristics, assert and enforce a racial hierarchy, serves interest of one racial group over others, do all the actions through policies, laws, institutions
Prejudice
a pre judgement in favor of or against a group, person, idea, or a thing
Racial prejudice
a prejudgement of one racial group as having innate or fixed inferior qualities compared to other racial group
Discrimination
an action based on a prejudiced belief
Racism
discriminatory actions against a certain racial group rooted in racial prejudices or beliefs
When is racism most effective?
when the discriminating group has some sort of power over the discriminated group
When was biological racism prevalent?
1700s-1950s
