Chapter 11 Ethnicity And Race Flashcards
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What is Ethnicity?
Cultural values and norms that distinguish the members of a given group from others.
What is Racial Literacy?
The skills taught to children of multiracial families to help them cope with racial hierarchies and to integrate multiple ethnic identities.
What is Ethnic group?
Is one whose members share a distinct awareness of a common cultural identity, separating them from other groups.
What is Race ?
Differences in human physical characteristics used to categorize large numbers of individuals.
What is Racialization?
The process by which understanding of race are used to classily individual or group of people.
What is Racial Distinctions?
Are more then ways of describing human differences; they are also important factors in the reproduction of patterns of power and inequality.
What is Minority Group?
A group of people in a given society who, because of their distinct physical or cultural characteristics, find themselves in situations of inequality compared with the dominant group within that society.
What is Racism?
The attribution of characteristics of superiority or inferiority to a population sharing certain physically inherited characteristics.
What is Institutional Racism?
Patterns of discrimination base on ethnicity that have become structured into existing social institution.
Institutional Racism was developed by who?
Developed in the United States in the late 1960s by black power activists Stokeley Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, who believed that white supremacy structured all social relations.
What is the meaning of Prejudice ?
The holding of preconceived ideas about an individual or group, ideas that are resistant to change even in the face of new information. It may be either negative or positive.
What is the meaning of Discrimination?
Behavior that denies to the members of a particular group resources or rewards that can be obtained by others,
what is the meaning of Stereotyping?
Thinking in terms of fixed and inflexible categories.
what is the meaning of Displacement?
The transferring of ideas or emotions from their true source to another object.
In which Stereotyping is linked to the psychological mechanism.
what is the meaning of Scapegoats?
Individual or groups blamed for wrongs that were not of their doing.
What is Antiracism?
Forms of thought and/or practice that seek to confront, eradicate and/or ameliorate racism.
- is a concept that began to appear in regular usage in the 1960s Alistair Bonnett 2000
Europe to North America
Since the seventeenth century, some 45 million people have emigrated from Europe to what are now the United States and Canada.
About 200 million people in North America today trace their ancestry to this migration.
Europe to Central and South America
About 20 million people, mostly from Spain, Portugal, and Italy, have migrated to Central and South America.
Some 50 million people in these areas today are of European ancestry.
What is Immigration?
The movement of people into one country from another for the purpose of settlement.
What is Emigration?
The process by which people leave a country to settle in another, combine to produce global migration patterns linking countries of origin and countries of destination.
What are the FOUR models of Migration?
1: The Classic model
2: The Colonial model
3: Guest workers model
4: Illegal model
Classic model
applies to countries such as Canada, the United States, and Australia, which developed as nations of immigrants.
What is Assimilation?
The acceptance
