What is Race and Ethnicity
This term refers to shared cultural traits such as language, traditions, and ancestry.
What is ethnicity?
Omi and Winant developed this theory explaining how society creates and transforms racial categories.
What is racial formation theory?
A generalized belief about a group of people.
What is a stereotype?
Kimberlé Crenshaw coined this term to explain overlapping identities.
What is intersectionality?
What's our professor's name?
Ms. Mary Joseph
This term refers to a group classified primarily by perceived physical characteristics.
What is race?
The idea that ignoring race will end racism is known as this ideology.
What is colorblind racism?
A negative attitude toward a group based on stereotypes.
What is prejudice?
A Black woman may experience discrimination differently than a white woman or a Black man because of this concept.
What is intersectionality?
Who is the chemical engineer in our group?
Katherine Nash
Sociologists argue that race is not biological but instead one of these types of constructs.
What is a social construct?
This phrase describes how race is shaped by social, economic, and political forces.
What is racial formation?
Unequal treatment of a group based on identity.
What is discrimination?
The personal, day-to-day realities that shape how people understand the world.
What are lived experiences?
Who is the electrical engineer in our group?
Agyei Randolph
The practice of grouping people based on physical features and treating them differently as a result.
What is racial categorization?
Saying “I don’t see race” may unintentionally reinforce inequalities by ignoring these.
What are systemic and historical inequalities?
This form of racism occurs when institutions produce racial inequality without explicit intent.
What is institutional racism?
This concept explains that people's identities combine to produce unique privileges and disadvantages.
What is intersecting identities?
Who is the accounting major in our group?
Greneisha Walker
The U.S. Census changing racial categories over time demonstrates that race is this.
What is historically and socially fluid?
Colorblind ideology benefits this group by maintaining the status quo.
Who are the socially dominant or majority group?
A hiring policy that unintentionally disadvantages minority applicants is an example of this.
What is systemic or institutional discrimination?
Studying experiences from the standpoint of those most affected by inequality is known as using this perspective.
What is a marginalized or standpoint perspective?
What's todays date?
11/10/2025