Symbolic ethnicity
Ethnic identity that is only relevant on specific occasions and does not significantly impact everyday life
Ethnicity
Socially defined category based on common language,religion,nationality,history or other cultural factor
Situational ethnicity
Ethnic identity that is displayed or concealed depending on its usefulness in a situation
Minority group
Social group that is systematically denied the same access to power and resources available to society’s dominant group. Not necessarily ok smaller numbers
Racism
A set of beliefs about a racial group. Used to justify inequality
Discrimination
Unequal treatment based on their membership in a social group; usually motivated by prejudice
Individual discrimination
Discrimation carried out by one person against another
Institutional discrimination
Discrimination carried out by institutions that effect all members of a group
Passing
Presenting yourself as a member of a different racial group than the one you’re born into
Double-consciousness
Web Dubois’s term for the divided identity experienced by blacks
Embodied identity
Identity generated through others perceptions of our physical traits
Population transfer
The forceful removal of a group of people out of a territory
Internal colonialism
The economic and political subjugation of the minority group by the dominant group
Assimilation
A pattern of relations between ethnic or racial groups where minority is absorbed into majority
Racial assimilation
Racial Minority groups are absorbed into dominant group through intermarriage
Cultural assimilation
Racial groups are absorbed into the dominant group by adopting ones culture
Pluralism
A cultural pattern of interfering relations that encourages racial and ethnic variation
