AAS: Chapter 11

Color Blindness

The assumption that race no longer serves as the basis for social stigmatization, discrimination, inequality, or injustice in a society.

Multiculturalism

A social condition in which racial diversity is taken fully into account and valued for its own.

Assimilation

The process in which outgroups are absorbed into the dominant culture.

Racial Democracy

A model of race relations in which person’s of all racial groups draw returns on societal resources commensurate with the value they have added to those resources, and in which all are recognized in their full humanity as contributors to the social whole.

Reflexivity

Habits of critical thought and reflection through which people seek to identify unconscious assumptions and blind spots in their own, and others understandings of racial life.

Collective Action

Action aimed at reform and transformative social change, often brought about through public protest such as strikes, sustained boycotts, public demonstrations, civil disobedience, and racial uprisings.