Race & Ethnicity

Affirmitive action

Positive efforts to recruit minorities for jobs and educational oppurtunities

Color-blind racism

A principle of race neutrality that uplifts the unequal status quo

Glass ceiling

An invisible barrier that blocks promotions for qualified individuals due to race, gender or sexuality

Racial formmation

A process in which racial categories created, transformed and destroyed

Redlining

A pattern of discrimination against people trying to buy homes in minority or racially changing neighborhoods.

Sharing Economy

Connecting owners of underused assets with others willing to pay to use them

Amalgamation

A process in which a majority group and minority group combine to create a new group

Apartheid

A former policy that the south african government would use to maintain the separation black people and other non-whites from the whites

Assimilation

A minority group tries to become part of the majority

Contact Hypothesis

An interactionalist perspective that says that interracial connections can help reduce prejudice

Double consiousness

The division of a person’s identity into 2 or more social realities

Exploitation Theory

Marxist theory that reviews racial subordination as a manifestation of capitalism

Plurism

Mutual respect of a person’s culture across sociétés that allows minorities to express their culture freely

Asylees

Foreigners that have already entered the country in search of protection

Refugee

People who live outside their country of citizenship due to fear of political prosecution

Remittances

The money that immigrants send to their family in their home country