Race

Question 1

Race

Answer 1

group of people who share a set of characteristics (physical) and share a common bloodline; don’t pick

Question 2

Racism

Answer 2

belief that members of a separate races possess different and unequal traits

Question 3

Scientific Racism

Answer 3

investigation into the origins, explanations, and classifications of race

Question 4

Social Darwinism

Answer 4

application of Darwinian biological ideas to society

Question 5

Eugenics

Answer 5

controlling the fertility of populations to influence inheritable traits passed on from generation to generation

Question 6

Ethnicity

Answer 6

ethnic affiliation; voluntary, self defined, and based on cultural differences

Question 7

Symbolic Ethnicity

Answer 7

can celebrate Cino de Mayo or St. Patty’s day but don’t actually carry out the cultural duties and rights

Question 8

Racialization

Answer 8

formation of a new radical identity; ideological boundaries of difference are drawn around a formerly unnoticed group of people; Muslim

Question 9

Miscegentaion

Answer 9

technical term of interracial marriage ; Loving vs Virginia

Question 10

One Drop Rule

Answer 10

rule that one drop of black blood makes a person black

Question 11

Straight-line assimilation

Answer 11

immigrants assimilate; arrive, settle in, finally achieve full assimilation

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Primordialism

Answer 12

explain strength of ethnic ties bc they are fixed in deeply felt ties to ones homeland culture

Question 13

Pluralism

Answer 13

presence and engaged coexistence of numerous distinct groups in society

Question 14

Segregation

Answer 14

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

Question 15

De jure

Answer 15

legal laws; Jim Crowe Laws

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De facto

Answer 16

today’s segregation; gov policies-school districts

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Genocide

Answer 17

the mass killing of a group of people based on racial, ethnic, or religious traits

Question 18

Withdrawal

Answer 18

groups of people leaving homeland

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Passing

Answer 19

black race bleaching skin and straightening hair; fit in

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Subaltern

Answer 20

subordinante, oppressed group of people

Question 21

Collective Resistance

Answer 21

organized effort to change a power hierarchy on the part of a less powerful group

Question 22

Institutional Racism

Answer 22

Social dynamics that may seem race neutral but actually disadvantaged minority groups

Question 23

Prejudice

Answer 23

thoughts and feelings about an ethnic group

Question 24

Discrimination

Answer 24

harmful or negative actions from one person to a different person; act of prejudice

Question 25

Active Bigot

Answer 25

prejudice | discriminator

Question 26

Timid Bigot

Answer 26

prejudice | not a discriminator

Question 27

Fair-Weather Liberal

Answer 27

not prejudice | discriminator

Question 28

All-Weather Bigot

Answer 28

not prejudice | not a discriminator

Question 29

White Privilage

Answer 29

white, male, heterosexual; more job opportunities