ET - Ethnicities

Question 1

Define:

Ethnicity?

Examples?

Answer 1

Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.

Tutsis of Central Africa ; Asian-Americans

Culture

Question 2

Define:

Nationality?

Example?

Answer 2

Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment to a particular country

American; Turkish ; Chinese

Citizenship

Question 3

Define:

Race?

Example?

Answer 3

Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait, such as skin color

Black ; White

Biological Composition

Question 4

Explain:

Different definitions of Racism?

What is a racist?

Answer 4

Racism is:
Rubenstein: The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
Merriam-Webster: Doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles (A political or social system founded on racism)

Racist: A person who displays discrimination or feels prejudice against people of particular races

Question 5

Define:

Ethnic Cleansing vs. Genoicde?

How are they related?

Answer 5

Ethnic cleansing: A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnicaly homogeneous region

Genocide: The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group of existence.

Question 6

Define:

Balkanization?

Answer 6

The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities

Question 7

Define:

Ethnic Enclave?

Answer 7

A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area

Question 8

Define:

Nationalism?

Answer 8

Loyalty and devotion to ones’s own nationality.

Promotes a sense of national consciousness that exalts one nation above all others and emphasizes its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nationalities

Question 9

Define:

Systemic Racism?

Redlining?

Answer 9

Redlining: The systemic drawing of lines by govenremnts to purposefully seperate and cut off black communities
Implicit Bias: The unknown prejudices that people hold unconsciously

Question 10

Explain:

Colorblind Racism?

Answer 10

Belief that racism is no longer a problem and that we all have equal opportunities
Prevents people from…
historical causes of racial inequality and how racial inequality persists

Question 11

Explain:

Classical Racism?

Answer 11

Primary determinnat of human traits and capacities and abilities
- There are distinct and permanent races
- Race is the key factor in human variation
- race is based on physical markers
- races are assoicated with ditinct social…

Question 12

Explain:

Institutional Racism?

Answer 12

Racism as a societal system of oppression and disadvantage that is based on racial categories

Question 13

Block busting (or ‘White Flight’)?

Answer 13

Black people are moving into neighborhoods so white people sell their homes at undervalued and then re-selling to black people overpriced simply due to racial fears