Race and Ethnicity Flashcards

Flashcards on Race and Ethnicity

Two Languages of Race

The idea that blacks see the 'centrality of race' in history and everyday experience, while whites see race as 'a peripheral, nonessential reality.

White Perspective on Racism

Locating racism in color consciousness and finding its absence color-blindness.

Non-White Perspective on Racism

Seeing racism as a system of power, arguing that blacks cannot be racist because they lack power.

Race

An unscientific and arbitrary classification of humans based on hereditary characteristics.

Racial Group

A group socially set apart from others due to obvious physical differences.

Ethnic Group

A group set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural traits.

Minority Group

A subordinate group with significantly less control or power over their lives than the dominant group.

Racism

The doctrine that humans are divided into different physical types with intrinsic links to culture, personality, and intelligence, leading to the belief that some races are innately superior.

Prejudice

A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, such as a racial or ethnic minority.

Stereotypes

Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not account for individual differences.

Discrimination

The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals or groups because of prejudice.

Segregation

The act of physically separating two groups, often imposed on a subordinate group by the dominant group.

Social Meaning of Race

The idea that humans are subdivided into distinct hereditary groups with innate differences in social behavior and mental capacities, justifying unequal resource distribution.

Amalgamation - Melting Pot

A+B+C=D

Assimilation

A + B + C = A

Cultural Pluralism

A + B + C = A + B + C

Internal Colonialism

Forced Entry, Economic Exploitation, Political Subjugation, and Racism

Racial Formation

Sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed. Linked to hegemony.

Northwest Ordinance (July 13, 1787)

The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent

Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

Ended allotment policy. Prevent transfer of Indian land or share

Dawes Act (1887)

Central goal was to assimilate native Americans by breaking up tribal lands into private lands

Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)

Ruling was ‘separate but equal’

Dred Scott V. Sanford (1857)

all people of African descent, free or slave, were not United States citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court

Great Migration

Sharecropping

Modern Immigration

1986 IRCA

1986 IRCA

1986 IRCA

NAFTA (1994)

NAFTA (1994)

Little Kabul

Little Kabul