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Racial literacy
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skills in order to help them cope with racial hierarchies and to integrate multiple ethnic identities.--> antiracism training.
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Ethnicity
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cultural practices and outlooks of a given community that have emerged historically and tend to set people apart. Language, history, religion, ancestry, and style of dress.
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Race
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classification system that assigns individuals and groups categories that are ranked or hierarchical. -Physical variations.
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Situational ethnicity
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one the ways in which ethnic and racial identification is socially constructed. Assert or not reveal a aspect of their identity or heritage.
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Symbolic ethnicity
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members of an ethnic group assimilate into the larger culture.
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racism
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system of domination that operates in social processes and social institutions. or explicit beliefs in racial supremacy.
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Institutional racism
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racism pervades all of society's structures in a systematic manner.-Police, health care, education, and policies.
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Old racism vs new racism
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Old: biological racism based on differences in physical traits-->inferiority.
New: cultural arguments in order to support discrimination against certain peoples of the population. |
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Antiracism
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confront racism, and do something about it.
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Prejudice
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opinions or attitudes held by members of one group toward one another. Often based on hearsay rather then direct evidence.
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Discrimination
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actual behavior toward another groups. exclusing or restricting mmeber os specific racial or ethnic groups from opportunities that are available to other groups.
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stereotyping
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thing in terms of fixed categories of individuals
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displacement
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feelings of hostility or anger are directed against objects that are not the real origin of those feelings.
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Scapegoats
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people vent their antogonism against other who are then blamed for their problems.
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Minority group
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disadvantaged as compared with the dominant group, and have a sense of belonging to the group.
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genocide
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the systematic planned destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.
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ethnic cleansing
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the creation of ethnically homogeneous areas through the mass expulsion of other ethnic populations.
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segregation
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groups closure whereby racial and ethnic groups are kept physically separate by law
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Assimilation
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new immigrant groups would assume that attitudes and language of the dominant white community
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melting pot
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merging different cultures and outlooks by stirring them together.
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pluralism
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ethnic cultures are given full validity to exist separately yet participate in the larger society's economic and political life.
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Multiculturalism
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ethnic groups exist separately and equally
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immigration and emigration
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Immigration: the movement of people into a country to settle.
emigration: the process by which people leave a country to settle in another. |
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push and pull factors of emigration
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push: a country forces their people to emigrate.
pull: destination countries attract immigrants. |
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diaspora
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the dispersal of an ethnic population from and original homeland into foreign areas, often in a forced and traumatic manner.
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