Race/Ethnicity
What is the difference between race and ethnicity?
What is
What is the definition of "discrimination"?
What is "discrimination refers to unjust or prejudicial treatment of individuals based on characteristics like race, gender, age, religion, or socioeconomic status."?
What is the definition of "critical race theory"?
What is "an intellectual and social movement that examines how race and racism intersect with law, power, and society. It challenges the ways in which racism is embedded in legal systems, policies, and societal norms, often perpetuating inequality even in seemingly race-neutral systems."?
What is the definition of a "dominant group?
What is "a racial or ethnic group that has the greatest power or resources in society."?
What is the definition of "prejudice"?
What is "a negative attitude based on faulty generalizations about members of specific racial, ethnic, or other groups."?
Who were the first immigrants to arrive from Europe in the early 19th and 20th centuries?
Who are Italian and Irish immigrants?
What is one example of discrimination mentioned in the presentation?
What is "Slavery and Colonialism", "Civil Rights Movements", or "Gender Discrimination"?
What is the definition of the functionalist perspective?
What is "the processes that occur between members of dominant and subordinate groups in society"?
What is the definition of a "subordinate group"?
What is "one whose members, because of physical or cultural characteristics, are disadvantaged and subjected to unequal treatment and discrimination by the dominant group"?
What is "ethnocentrism"?
What is "the belief that one's own ethnic culture or group is the standard and thus causes other groups to be seen as inferior."?
What is the focus of ethnicity?
What is focusing on cultural identity, which can include religion, customs, and shared history?
What does discrimination look like in the Western context?
What is focusing on race and gender (racial segregation in the U.S.)?
What is conflict perspective?
What is "the analysis of power and economic differentials between the dominant group and subordinate groups"?
An example of Native American inequality
What is "Native American Displacement in the U.S."?
Dominant Group: White settlers and the U.S. government.
Subordinate Group: Native American tribes, who were forcibly relocated, marginalized, and subjected to cultural erasure.
What is prejudice rooted in?
What is "ethnocentrism"?
When the U.S. opened relations with Cuba, how much did Cuban immigration increase?
What is 78%?
What does discrimination look like in the Middle East and Asia?
What is religion, caste, ethnicity (e.g., caste-based discrimination in India), and/or Women’s and LGBTQ+ rights?
How is the symbolic interactionist perspective seen in race, ethnicity, and discrimination?
What is social constructs, labels and stereotypes, identity formation, and/or microaggressions?
An example of gender inequality
What is
Dominant Group: Men, especially in patriarchal societies.
Subordinate Group: Women, who historically faced limited rights, political exclusion, and discrimination in many parts of the world.
What are some categories that African-Americans have experienced growth in since the 1960s?
What is education, income, politics, and/or employment?
What is the social significance of race?
What is "how people act in regard to certain terms drastically affects other people's lives, including what opportunities they have, how they are treated, and even how long they live"?
What does discrimination look like in Sub-Saharan Africa?
What is tribalism and colonial legacies contribute to ethnic tensions?
How is critical race theory applied in everyday life?
What is through legal studies, education, and/or public policies?
What is misleading about dominant and subordinate groups, as mentioned in the presentation?
What is "the word group as used in these two terms is misleading because people who merely share a described racial or ethnic characteristic, do not constitute a group."?
What popular sport did many white ethnic Americans do as a means of fitting in?
What is boxing?