Chapter 9

Question 1

Race

Answer 1

group of people who share a set of characteristics, common bloodline

Question 2

Racism

Answer 2

belief that members of a separate race possess different and unequal human traits

Question 3

Ethnocentrism

Answer 3

white superiority

Question 4

Social Darwinism

Answer 4

notion that some groups or races have evolved more than others, better fit to survive, rule other races

Question 5

Eugenics

Answer 5

claimed that traits could be traced through bloodlines and bred for positive and negative traits which influenced IMMIGRATION POLICY

Question 6

One-Drop Rule

Answer 6

belief that “one drop” of black blood makes a person black

Question 7

Racialization

Answer 7

formation of new racial ID and new ideological boundaries of difference are drawn around a formerly unnoticed group of people

Question 8

Race

Answer 8

imposed, based on physical differences EXTERNAL

Question 9

ethnicity

Answer 9

voluntary, self defined, nonhierarchical INTERNAL

Question 10

Symbolic Ethnicity

Answer 10

ethnicity that is individualistic in nature and without real social cost for individual

Question 11

Angelo

Answer 11

White Culture

Question 12

Black community

Answer 12

high rates of poverty, crime, unemployment, incarceration, and health problems

Question 13

Latino community

Answer 13

very diverse, in search of economic opportunity, ambiguous racial ID(sometimes grouped with whites and sometimes not)

Question 14

Asian Immigrants

Answer 14

were made up of unskilled laborers, now are well educated and highly skilled people from all over Asia, generally achieve high economic status

Question 15

Whiteness Studies

Answer 15

shows that being white is as much a social construction as any other racial category
Being white gives you an advantage

Question 16

Straight-Line assimilation model

Answer 16

created by Robert Park in 1920. 4 STAGES: contact, competition, accommodation, and assimilation

Question 17

Milton Gordon

Answer 17

Changed the straight line assimilation model to have 7 STAGES that immigrants could pass through or become stuck in

Question 18

Ethnic ID

Answer 18

can persist even after group as become fairly well assimilated

Question 19

Primordialism

Answer 19

ethnic ties fixed in deeply felt connection to one’s homeland culture

Question 20

Pluralism

Answer 20

refers to the presence and engaged coexistence of nu,nervous distinct groups in one society, no one group is majority

Question 21

Segregation

Answer 21

legal or social practice of separating people on the basis of their race or ethnicity

Question 22

genocide

Answer 22

deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group

Question 23

4 ways groups respond to oppression

Answer 23

Withdrawal (moving away), Passing (blend in w/ majority), Acceptance(outwardly accept internally be mad), Resistance(marches)

Question 24

Prejudice

Answer 24

negative thoughts and feelings about an ethnic or racial group

Question 25

Discrimination

Answer 25

negative acts against people deemed inferior

Question 26

New Kind of Racism

Answer 26

focuses on cultural and national differences rather than racial ones

Question 27

Wealth Gap

Answer 27

exists between white and minority, cannot be overcome simply through income equality