Chapter 11 Ethnicity And Race Flashcards
What is Ethnicity?
Cultural values and norms that distinguish the members of a given group from others.
What is Racial Literacy?
The skills taught to children of multiracial families to help them cope with racial hierarchies and to integrate multiple ethnic identities.
What is Ethnic group?
Is one whose members share a distinct awareness of a common cultural identity, separating them from other groups.
What is Race ?
Differences in human physical characteristics used to categorize large numbers of individuals.
What is Racialization?
The process by which understanding of race are used to classily individual or group of people.
What is Racial Distinctions?
Are more then ways of describing human differences; they are also important factors in the reproduction of patterns of power and inequality.
What is Minority Group?
A group of people in a given society who, because of their distinct physical or cultural characteristics, find themselves in situations of inequality compared with the dominant group within that society.
What is Racism?
The attribution of characteristics of superiority or inferiority to a population sharing certain physically inherited characteristics.
What is Institutional Racism?
Patterns of discrimination base on ethnicity that have become structured into existing social institution.
Institutional Racism was developed by who?
Developed in the United States in the late 1960s by black power activists Stokeley Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, who believed that white supremacy structured all social relations.
What is the meaning of Prejudice ?
The holding of preconceived ideas about an individual or group, ideas that are resistant to change even in the face of new information. It may be either negative or positive.
What is the meaning of Discrimination?
Behavior that denies to the members of a particular group resources or rewards that can be obtained by others,
what is the meaning of Stereotyping?
Thinking in terms of fixed and inflexible categories.
what is the meaning of Displacement?
The transferring of ideas or emotions from their true source to another object.
In which Stereotyping is linked to the psychological mechanism.
what is the meaning of Scapegoats?
Individual or groups blamed for wrongs that were not of their doing.