Race vs. Ethnicity
A social category based on perceived physical traits such as skin tone or facial features.
What is race?
A group with less access to power and privilege, regardless of size.
What is a minority group?
This perspective says prejudice can create unity within a group
What is functionalism?
This practice keeps racial or ethnic groups separate in daily life.
What is segregation?
A social category based on perceived physical traits such as skin tone or facial features.
What is ethnicity?
Membership in a minority group is usually this type of status.
What is ascribed?
This perspective says prejudice helps maintain power and privilege for the dominant group.
What is conflict theory?
When a minority group adopts the dominant culture, often losing its original identity.
What is assimilation?
This is the one ethnicity the U.S. Census has traditionally measured separately
What is Hispanic or Latino?
Minority groups often marry within the group.
What is endogamy?
This perspective focuses on how everyday interactions and meanings shape how we see group differences.
What is the symbolic interactionist perspective?
When groups live side-by-side while maintaining their cultural traditions
What is multiculturalism?
As of 2024, the Census has combined these two identity categories into one question
What are race and ethnicity?
The group that controls resources and sets cultural norms.
What is the dominant group?
This form of discrimination is built into the operations of schools, workplaces, housing, or government policies.
What is institutional discrimination?
When a dominant group forces a minority group to relocate from one region to another.
What is population transfer?
The 2024 federal update to the Census created this new category for race.
What is Middle Eastern or North African (MENA)?
Minority groups often form historically through this process(es).
What are expanding political boundaries and migration?
This term describes internalization of dominant norms that become a subconscious motivation for behavior.
What is implicit bias?
When a dominant group exploits a minority group’s labor and resources while keeping them oppressed within the same country.
What is internal colonialism?