CH 9: Race, ethnicity, and immagration

Question 1

people with unequal access to positions of power, prestige, and wealth in a society and tend to be targets of discrimination

Answer 1

minority group

Question 2

humans ranked in heiarchy on the basis of observable characteristics such as nose width and skin color

Answer 2

scientific racism

Question 3

dominant group forces a subordinate group to leave the country or to live in confined areas of a country

Answer 3

expulsion

Question 4

mass anihalation of an entire group

Answer 4

genocide

Question 5

adopting the culture of a group different from the one in which a person was raised

Answer 5

accuhlaration

Question 6

people who share physical characteristics that are socially significant

Answer 6

race

Question 7

physical seperation of two groups

Answer 7

segregation

Question 8

shared cultural heritage or nationality

Answer 8

ethnicity

Question 9

state in which racial and ethnic groups maintain their distinctness but respect each other and have equal access to social resources.

Answer 9

pluralism

Question 10

The process by which formerly distinct and separate groups merge and become integrated as one.

Answer 10

assimilation

Question 11

organization that advocate for restrictive immagration policies but encourage members to use vigilante tactics to confront or harass undocumented immagrants

Answer 11

nativist extremist groups

Question 12

immagrants who apply fo rand meet requirements for U.S. citizenship

Answer 12

naturalized citizens

Question 13

city whose municipal laws tend to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation or prosecution, despite federal immigration law.

Answer 13

santuary city

Question 14

Discrimination that is based on the prejudice of others

Answer 14

adaptive discrimination

Question 15

Laws banning interracial marriage until 1967, when the Supreme Court (in Loving v. Virginia) declared these laws unconstitutional

Answer 15

Antimiscegenation laws

Question 16

A subtle form of prejudice that involves feelings of discomfort, uneasiness, disgust, fear, and pro-White attitudes.

Answer 16

Aversive Racism

Question 17

A pattern in which racial and ethnic minority groups are excluded from the dominant culture and thereby from social and political power; includes predatory, caste, and sojourner pluralism.

Answer 17

Coercive pluralism

Question 18

: A form of racism that is based on the idea that overcoming racism means ignoring race, but color-blindness is, in itself, a form of racism because it prevents acknowledgment of privilege and disadvantage associated with race, and therefore allows the continuation of institutional forms of racial bias

Answer 18

Color-blind racism

Question 19

Prejudice or discrimination based on skin tone.

Answer 19

Colorism

Question 20

Racist rhetoric distributed through online mechanisms that focus primarily on ideas of racial uniqueness, nationalism, racial supremacy, racial segregation, and an anti-establishment worldview.

Answer 20

cyber-racism

Question 21

Actions or practices that result in differential treatment of categories of individuals.

Answer 21

Discrimination

Question 22

A U.S. federal agency charged with ending employment discrimination in the United States and responsible for enforcing laws against discrimination, including Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Answer 22

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Question 23

An unlawful act of violence motivated by prejudice or bias

Answer 23

Hate crime

Question 24

: A prevalent form of racial bias over which a person has little or no conscious awareness or control.

Answer 24

Implicit prejudice

Question 25

The unfair or unequal treatment of individuals because of their group membership.

Answer 25

Individual discrimination

Question 26

Discrimination in which institutional policies and procedures result in unequal treatment of and opportunities for minorities.

Answer 26

Institutional discrimination

Question 27

The systematic distribution of power, resources, and opportunity in ways that benefit White people and disadvantage minorities.

Answer 27

Institutional racism

Question 28

Anti-Muslim and anti-Islam bias

Answer 28

Islamophobia

Question 29

Organizations that not only advocate restrictive immigration policy, but also encourage their members to use vigilante tactics to confront or harass suspected undocumented immigrants.

Answer 29

Nativist extremist groups

Question 30

Discrimination that occurs because of an individual’s own prejudicial attitudes.

Answer 30

Overt discrimination

Question 31

Preconceived opinion or bias that could be positive or negative

Answer 31

Prejudice

Question 32

Brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward the target person or group.

Answer 32

Racial microaggressions

Question 33

Exaggerations or generalizations about the characteristics and behavior of a particular group.

Answer 33

Stereotypes

Question 34

Communities that are purposely “all-White” and that have used various means to deliberately keep racial and ethnic minorities out

Answer 34

Sundown towns