Ch. 10- Race and Ethnicity Flashcards
Race
biologically speaking, an arbitrary classification assigned on the basis of genetic characteristics (e.g.: skin color).
Ethnicity
group distinctiveness based on a common territory, history, and tradition.
Racism
behavior based on the belief that a group is inferior because of inherited physical differences that are inherently connected with behavioral differences.
Genocide
the systematic mass murder of a group of people.
Ethnocentrism
an attitude based in the cultural superiority of one’s own ethnic group above all others.
Immigrants
individuals who have relocated from their native country to another country.
Nativism
the ethnocentric attitude of a native-born population towards immigrants.
Minority group
a group of people within society who are subordinated on the basis of their physical or cultural characteristics.
Prejudice
a negative attitude toward members of an ethnic or racial minority group.
Stereotype
a neutral term referring to fixed, cognitive preconceptions that are necessary for understanding modern society.
Discrimination
behaviors based on cultural beliefs that stigmatize members of a minority group, harmfully impact them, and reinforce their lower status in relation to the majority group.
Racial underclass
Collectively, the large number of African-Americans who are impoverished and much more likely than mainstream groups to be out of work, to be sick, to have dropped out of high school, to live in single-parent house-holds, and to have been incarcerated.
Reverse migration
A recent trend whereby black Americans are moving back to the South in high numbers (having originally fled the South after the Civil War). some argue that it is a result of the availability of job opportunities in the South- other argue that it is voluntary segregation.
Multiculturalism
a value based on the principle that many cultures can, and should, coexist in a particular region.
What is
biologically speaking, an arbitrary classification assigned on the basis of genetic characteristics (e.g.: skin color).
Race
