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a person or group that is incapable of offering resistance to the hostility or aggression of others
What is scapegoat?
100
a racial or ethnic group that has the greatest power and resources in a society VS a group whose members, because of physical or cultural characteristics, are disadvantaged and subjected to unequal treatment and discrimination by the dominant group
What is dominant group VS subordinate group?
100
these three perspectives examine race and ethnic relations in different ways
What is symbolic interactionist, functionalist, and conflict analysts?
100
this ethnicity's experience has been marked by slavery, segregation, and persistent discrimination
What is African Americans?
100
who is considered to be a dominant group and who is considered to be a subordinate group in the US?
What is whites with Northern European ancestry and African Americans?
200
the coexistence of a variety of distinct racial and ethnic groups within one society
What is ethnic pluralism?
200
behavior consisting of one-on-one acts by members of the dominant group that harm members of the subordinate group or their property VS the day-to-day practices of organizations and institutions that have a harmful effect on members of subordinate groups
What is individual discrimination VS institutional discrimination?
200
who examines how microlevel contacts between people may produce either greater racial tolerance or increased levels of hostility?
What is symbolic interactionists?
200
this ethnictiy has been subjected to extreme prejudice and stereotyped as "coolies," "heathens," and "chinks"
What is Asian Americans?
200
What are the four major types of discrimination?
What is isolate discrimination, small-group discrimination, direct institutionalized discrimination, and indirect institutionalized discrimination?
300
the interactive effect of racism and sexism on the exploitation of women of color
What is gendered racism?
300
a category of people who have been singled out as inferior or superior, often on the basis of real or alleged physical characteristics such as skin color, hair texture, eye shape, or other subjectively selected attributes VS a collection of people distinguished, by others or by themselves, primarily on the basis of cultural or nationality charactersitcs
What is race VS ethnic group?
300
who focuses on the macrolevel intergroup processes that occur between members of dominant and subordinate groups in society?
What is functionalists?
300
this ethnicity is considered the most privileged group in this country
What is White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (British Americans)?
300
define genocide
What is the deliberate, systematic killing of an entire people or nation?
400
the idea that actions of the government substantially define racial and ethnic relations in the United States
What is theory of racial formation?
400
a negative attitude based on faulty generalizations about members of specific racial, ethnic, or other groups VS a set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices that is used to justify the superior treatment of one racial or ethnic group and the inferior treatment of another racial or ethnic group
What is prejudice VS racism?
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who analyzes power and economic differentials between the dominant group and subordinate groups?
What is conflict theorists?
400
have experienced persistent discrimination particularly if they are Muslim or if there has been a recent threat of a terrorist attack in the United States
What is Middle Eastern Americans?
500
the division of the economy into two areas of employment, a primary sector or upper tier composed of higher-paid workers in jobs with little security and hazardous working conditions
What is split labor market?
500
a process by which members of subordinate racial and ethnic groups become absorbed into the dominant culture VS the spatial and social separation of categories of people by race/ethnicity, class, gender, and/or religion
What is assimilation VS segregation?
500
what happens when people from different racial and ethnic groups come into contact with one another?
what is symbolic interactionists claim that intergroup contact may either intensify or reduce racial and ethnic stereotyping and prejudice, depending on the context?
500
these terms are used interchangeably to refer to people who trace their origins to Spanish-speaking Latin America and the Iberian peninsula
What is Latinos/as & Hispanic Americans?
500
blatant and may take the form of public statements about inferiority of members of a racial or ethnic group
What is overt racism?