Sociological Perspective on Race

Ethnocentrism

________ is the judgment of other groups by ones own standards and values.

Peggy McIntosh

________ argues that whiteness is an "invisible knapsack of privileges "that puts white people at an advantage, just as racism places nonwhites at a disadvantage.

Irish

White "is a flexible label that has expanded over time to include many formerly nonwhite groups such as Jews, ________, and Italians.

maps of neighborhoods

Eg: red lining: state sponsored action to put risk levels into the ________ that were for sale.

Eugenics

________ the ‘ science of genetic lines and the inheritable traits they pass on from generation to generation.

Dominican Republic

In 2013, the majority of Latinos in the United States were from Mexico (about 63.2 %), Puerto Rico (about 9.5 %), Cuba (3.9 %), and the ________ (3.3 %)

Social Darwinism

________ the disproven notion that some groups or races had evolved more than others and thus were better fit to survive and even to rule other races.

Homeownership rate

________ for Cuban Americans is much higher than Dominican Americans.

diverse group of people of Latin

Latino, like the term Hispanic (the two are often used interchangeably), refers to a(n) ________ or Hispanic origin.

Race

________ is a classification system invented by people.

Spanish speaking

Hispanic: people whose ancestry comes from ________ countries.

Miscegenation

________ is the technical term for a multiracial marriage.

White flight

________: white families leaving the mixed minority neighborhood to get a better financial outcome on their houses.

median income of African Americans

The ________ as a group is roughly 62.8 percent that of whites.

Anti miscegenation rules

________ kept people from interacting with each other because the less you interact with someone the less likely you are to marry them.

Native Americans

________ rank among the worst in terms of high- school dropout rates and unemployment, which go hand in hand with poor health outcomes such as alcoholism, suicide, and premature death.

Middle Easterners

________ come from places as diverse as the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, Iran, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories.

Racism

________ is the belief that members of separate ________ possess different and.

Race

________ can be defined as a group of people who share a set of characteristics- usually physical ones- and are said to share a common bloodline.

Race

________ is more meaningful to us on a social level than it is on a biological level.