06 Race and Ethnicity Flashcards
race
system to classify groups of people based on phenotypical traits
ethnicity
common culture, religion, history, or ancestry shared by group of people
race essentialism
belief that race is biological trait that determines people’s abilities and traits
hypodescent
“one drop rule” -> if white and black, then would have to put black
panethnicity
large ethnic label which encompasses many smaller but diverse subgroups -> often regional
ex) asian
current demography of us
diverse, white, black, asian
subgroups within these
projected demography of us
new category -> MENA (middle eastern and north african)
1790 naturalization act
prevented nonwhites from naturalizing
1870 naturalization act
granted birthright citizenship, ability to naturalize to african americans
1882 chinese exclusion act
first major exclusionary immigration policy -> banned chinese homos intellectually disabled and anarchists
1924 johnson reed immigration act
barred all immigrants from asia, set quotas for eastern and southern europeans based on their current white pop
1965 hart celler act
abolished national origin quotas
2010s-today
crimmigration:
segmented assimilation
immigrants assimilate into different parts of society
ex) italians -> now seen as white bc they assimilated into white culture when they migrated
de jure segregation
slavery, jim crow laws
structural racism
de facto segregation rather than de jure
built into public policies and pieces of legislation
ex) social security, redlining, white flight
redlining
denies financial services to neighborhoods based on race
white flight
large scale migration of white people from diverse suburbs
hyper selectivity
dual positive selectivity in which immigrants are more likely to graduate college than nonimmigrants in sending countries
neighborhood segregation
segregation of people into different neighborhoods based on race or income
deindustrialization
decline of region’s manufacturing industry -> can lead to job loss
spatial mismatch
people live far from jobs, making it hard for them to be employed
prejudice
explicit racism
implicit bias
stereotypes
model minority myth
stereotype of minorities with asians on top as successful well adjusted workers
bamboo ceiling
describes the barriers of asian americans advancing into leadership roles
