Race
What is a category of people who have been singled out as inferior or superior based on real or alleged physical characteristics such as skin color, eye color, etc?
Race
a process by which members of a subordinate racial or ethnic group become absorbed into the dominant culture
Assimilation
A negative attitude based on faulty generalizations about members of specific racial, ethnic, or other groups.
Prejudice
The perspective that focuses on the power and economic differentials between the dominant group and subordinate group
Conflict
Based on gender and race/ethnicity
A collection of people that are distinguished by others or by themselves primarily on the basis of culturally or nationality characteristics.
Ethnicity or Ethnic Group
When more than one racial or ethnic group live in harmony in one society
Ethnic Pluralism
Authoritarian Personality
Focus on the microlevel intergroup processes that occur between members of dominant and subordinate groups in society.
Functionalist
Which ethnic/racial group is most privileged in the US?
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
What is a racial or ethnic group that has the greatest power and resources in a society?
Dominant Group
spatial and social separation of categories of people by race, ethnicity, class, gender, and/or religion
Segregation
Involves ACTIONS or practices of dominant-group members (or their representatives) that have a harmful effect on members of a subordinate group.
Discrimination
Examine microlevel contacts between people may produce either greater racial tolerance or increased levels of hostility.
Symbolic Interactionists
Despite decades of enforcement of Civil Rights legislation, neighborhoods in the United States still tend to be racially segregated. This is an example of __________.
De facto segregation
What ethnicity is a Latino/Latina person?
Hispanic
Interactive effect of racism and sexism on the exploitation of women of color.
Gendered Racism
Deliberate, systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Genocide
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typically starts in large, impersonal settings such as schools and workplaces, and only later (if at all) results in close friendships and intermarriage.
Structural(integration)assimilation
True or False: President Obama checked White and Black on the 2010 Census due to his Mother being white and his Father being black.
False
States that actions of the government substantially define racial and ethnic relations in the United States.
Theory of Racial Formation
People with an Authoritarian Personality are more or less prejudiced?
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Within sports, team mascots that depict Native Americans in beads and paint, wearing headdresses, and doing the “tomahawk” chop are examples of __________.
Stereotypes