Sociological Perspective on Race

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Ethnocentrism

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

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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.

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Irish

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

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maps of neighborhoods

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

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Eugenics

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

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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 %)

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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.

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Homeownership rate

________ for Cuban Americans is much higher than Dominican Americans.

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diverse group of people of Latin

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

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Race

________ is a classification system invented by people.

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Spanish speaking

Hispanic: people whose ancestry comes from ________ countries.

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Miscegenation

________ is the technical term for a multiracial marriage.

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White flight

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

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median income of African Americans

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

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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.

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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.

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Middle Easterners

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

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Racism

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

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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.

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Race

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

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