QUIZ 3 | LARRY CURIEL | CH.10

ETHNICITY

refers to people who are RACIALY SIMILAR to one another; but have different cultural characteristics that distinguish them from their neighboring groups

racially similar, culturally different

SCIENTIFIC RACISM

the use of pseudo-scientific research or data to justify misinformed beliefs about the superiority or inferiority of particular racial group

EX. 'master race' hitler

DESEGREGATION

the elimination of spatial barriers between groups who don't necessarily want to interact with one another.

EX. children raised to distrust those different from them

JIM CROW LAWS

series of segregation laws passed by southern state legislatures after the civil war to ensure segregation at the state level

EX. Plessy vs Ferguson considered 'constitutional'

SELECTIVE PERCEPTION

the process by which individuals perceive what they want to see in news or social media presentations while ignoring opposing viewpoints.

SPILLOVER BIGOTRY

occurs when stereotypes lump different ethnic groups as "ONE & THE SAME"

EX. all african americans are criminals

MINORITY GROUP

a category of people who often face differential treatment because they lack POLITICAL & ECONOMIC influence & are often targets of labor & economic exploitation

(not based on numerical population/size)

EXPULSION

the forced removal of a minority population from their land or territory to a less desirable geographic location.

EX. forced relocation of native americans -- TRAIL OF TEARS

INTERNAL COLONIALISM

the policy of a dominant group exploiting minority groups within a nation or territory for political or economic gain.

EX. SLAVERY

ASSIMILATION

the process in which a minority group is absorbed into the larger society & can either a VOLUNTARY or FORCED experience

in this time, the group will lose many of its cultural characteristics as it adopts those of the dominant group

INSTITUTIONAL DISCRIMINATION

often built into society's SOCIAL STRUCTURE intentionally or unintentionally.

minorities argued that institutional discrimination makes it difficult to for them to get hired in many job fields & often disqualifies them from home & credit loans.

DISCRIMINATION

an ACTION that disqualifies members if a particular group from social opportunities (college, employment, etc.) & could include gender bias, age bias, physical bias, etc.

SPLIT-LABOR MARKET

explains that minority job exploitation results from employers creating unnatural working conditions that require minorities to compete against each other for low wage labor jobs; creating distrust for one another.

ETHNIC IDENTITY

refers to experiences of childhood socialization that minority group members experienced living in a society that favors dominant group values.

EX. there is a dominant language & religion in the US; immigrant must learn them to fit into society

SOCIAL DISTANCE

the LEVEL OF TOLERANCE one has for a group of categories of people who are different from themselves & often used as a prejudice measurement

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

was part of the CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 that required employers to actively seek out qualified minority candidates & to hire them over dominant group applicants if they are EQUALLY QUALIFIED FOR THE JOB.

CA was the 1st state in 1996 to repeal affirmative action

June 29, 2023 --- supreme court overturned affirmative action, ending race-conscious admissions to the workplace, colleges, and universities.

PREJUDICE

a positive of negative bias or ATTITUDE toward a group or category of people & is often determined by one's experience with a particular group & then generalizations are made to include all members of that particular group.

RACIAL FORMATION

process of which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed.

EX. creation of a reservation system forcing native american assimilation in the late 1800s

NATIVISM

a political position of preserving higher status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to newcomers or immigrants

IMPLICIT BIAS

refers to the relatively unconscious and automatic features of prejudicial judgement towards members of socially stigmatized groups.

DE FACTO SEGREGATION

segregation resulting from personal choice or circumstance.

some people prefer living in the small "ETHNIC SECTIONS" of town because they feel more comfortable being with people like themselves than a racially diverse neighborhood.

DOMINANT GROUP

a category of people whose values, language, customs, and traditions are practiced and enforced in a given society over that of others.

EX. the founding fathers were of European origins, their customs are dominant today

CONTACT HYPOTHESIS

argues that the more people get to know members of a minority group personally, the less likely they are to be prejudiced against that group.

STEREOTYPE

an exaggerated and inaccurate mental image of people often develop in regard to groups of people who are different from themselves.

stereotypes have a small amount of truth that becomes greatly distorted and followed with illogical and often negative generalizations about category of people.

GENOCIDE

the systematic MURDER of a population for biological, political, religious, territorial, and economic reasons.

DE JURE SEGREGATION

segregation that is required by law and punished with a criminal penalty for those who did not comply with the legal mandate.