Chapter 1
A designation that identifies a social group that shares a common cultural or national tradition.
What is ethnicity
Reasons that motivate immigrants to leave their home country, such as insecurity, danger, lack of opportunity, or lack of confidence in governmental institutions.
What are push factors
This is often envisioned as a mother, a father, and children (biological or adopted), living together.
What is a nuclear family
Dr. Malone attended this university
What is Texas A&M University
The systematic devaluing, undermining, marginalizing, and disadvantaging of certain social identity groups in contrast to a privileged norm.
What is oppression
A set of hierarchical relationships in which groups are defined culturally, ethnically, and/or racially, and these relationships serve to guarantee the political, social, and economic interests of the dominant group
What is colonialism
This was a response directly to the legacy of slavery theorists by arguing for the strength and resilience of Black families
What is the revisionist thesis
Dr. Malone's dissertation centered around this theory
What is Merton's status exchange theory
These are unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect how we perceive others, theirs and our actions, and decisions.
What are implicit biases
A permanent hierarchy based on race that developed in Spanish America.
What is a racial caste system
These are people who “live their lives across borders, participating simultaneously in social relations that embed them in more than one nation-state.”
Black men outmarry at ____ the rate that Black women outmarry
What is at least twice the rate.
This type of racism is assumed to be part of the natural, legitimate, and normal workings of society and its institutions
Informal or covert racism
This term was used to describe the mixing of different racial groups. It would later be used in the Loving v Virginia (1967)
What is miscegenation
This group has the highest rate of interracial/interethnic marriage
What is White/Hispanic
This is 1965 report that heavily pathologized Black families when it comes to explaining their conditions in the US.
What is the Moynihan Report
These are three of the five contours of colorblindness
What are Abstract liberalism, Naturalization, Cultural racism, Minimization of racism, Color blindness reinforces/reproduces subtle racial inequality.
This 1893 argument that the American identity, which included democratic governance, rugged individualism, innovative thinking, and egalitarian viewpoints, was forged in the American frontier experience
What is the Turner thesis
These laws gave welfare agencies the ability to cut off payments to single women who were suspected of engaging in sexual relations.
What are “man in the house” laws
Two of the CRT tenets that Dr. Williams covers in his article
What is the social construction of race and the permanence of racism.