Theoretical Perspectives
This perspective examines current and past struggles inequalities of race, gender, and ethnicity.
What is the conflict perspective?
This is usually defined based on physical characteristics.
What is race?
The United States is a "salad bowl".
What is pluralism?
The U. S. Census list these two ethnic categories.
What is Hispanic or Non Hispanic?
This is the largest group among White ethnic groups?
What are German Americans?
This perspective suggest that racial prejudice is formed through interactions between members of the dominant group.
What is the symbolic interactionists perspective?
Individuals identify themselves based on a group's cultural norms, language, and religion.
What is ethnicity?
Many Japanese Americans were forced in internment camps after the Japanese government's attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is expulsion?
This group was forced into boarding schools, forced to have their hair cut, speak English and practice Christianity as efforts of assimilation.
Who are Native Americans?
The U.S. Census estimates that this group is at least 13% of the US population.
Who are Black/African Americans?
This perspective suggests that tension and conflict is due to social imbalance in various parts of our society such as police systems, health care, and education.
What is the functionalist perspective?
What is institutional racism?
Many immigrants lose their native language, religion, and other cultural identities to become accepted by the dominant group.
What is assimilation?
This was the first Asian immigrants to come to the United States and began working during the Gold Rush and on the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad to earn income for their families back in their native country.
Who are Chinese Americans?
This group is often the target of Senate Bill 1070 as it is often challenged as being discriminatory and a type of racial profiling.
Who are Mexican Americans?
This theory originated by Kimberle Crenshaw and suggests we cannot separate the effects of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and others.
What is the intersection theory?
Hitler blamed the Jewish population for Germany's social and economic problems.
What is the scapegoat theory?
Trail of Tears, the Holocaust, and the geographic conflicts in Sudan.
What are examples of genocide?
This stereotype is applied to a specific minority group that is seen as reaching significant educational, professional, and socioeconomic levels without challenging the existing establishment.
What is the model minority?
The second-largest Hispanic subgroup who fled to the US to avoid having their assets seized by the government.
Who are Cuban Americans?
This theory suggests that someone who may know no Mexican Americans personally might gain a stereotyped impression from sources such as Speedy Gonzalez.
What is the culture of prejudice?
Jim Crow laws is an example of this type of segregation.
Interracial marriages were against the law until the 1967's court case Loving v Virginia.
What is amalgamation?
The U.S. Census Bureau list these five racial categories.
What is 1) White, 2) Black or African American, 3) American Indian or Alaska Native, 4) Asian, 5) Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander?
The U.S. Census does not have a category for this immigrant group who arrived in the US in the late 19 and early 20th century to escape political unrest and persecution and to make a better life for their family.
Who are the MENA (people from the Middle East and parts of North America)? Arab immigrants.