Chapter 3 Flashcards
Race
Category ofPeople who share biological traits that members of society think are important
When was the concept of race invented
Centuries ago as global trade brought the worlds people into contact with other people of diversity
Caucasoid
European scientist name for people People of European and west Asia
Designate people of light skin fine hair
Negroid
European scientists category for dark skin course hair
Mongoloid
European scientist name for people with yellow or brown skin folds in eyelids
Red-savages
Colonists name for native americans
Ethnicity
Shared cultural heritage which involves common ancestors language and religion
Difference between race and ethnic city
Race is about biological traits Ethnicity is a matter of culture They’re different but can go together ex: Korean Americans
Minority
People identified by physical cultural traits that a society subject to disadvantage
Distinctive identity
Physical traits which are difficult to change
Characteristics of minorities
Visability
Social disadvantage
Becoming majority of the population
White privilege
White people relative to those in my Nordie categories enjoy social advantages
The great immigration
From 1865 to 1914 try to 25,000,000 Immigrants to factory jobs created by the industrial revolution
Immigration act of 1924
Immigration and created a quota system that limited the number of immigrants entering the US
Genocide
The systematic killing of one category of people by another
Segregation
Physical and social separation of categories of people
Hyper segregation
Extreme racial segregation that consists of geographical grouping of a racial group for example African-Americans have a little contact with people outside of their community
Rosa Parks
Sparked a social movement to insigrogation on buses and publicly Transportation throughout the south
Assimilation
The process by which minorities gradually adopt cultural patterns from the dominant majority population
Pluralism
People of all racial and ethnic categories have about the same overall social standing
Ex: The US is pluralistic to the extent that officially at least all people have equal standing under the law
Trail of tears
Thousands of death among the Cherokee Indian nations from being forcibly removed
Emancipation proclamation
Declared the abolition of slavery
Jim Crow laws
Barred Black people from voting and sitting on juries and cold for segregated trains restaurant hotels in public places
Civil rights act of 1964
Prohibiting segregation appointment in public accommodations
The voting Rights act of 1965
Banning voting requirements that prevented African-Americans from having a political voice
Civil rights act of 1968
Outlawed discrimination in housing
Asian Americans are the fastest increasing racial or a category in the US population
Immigration from China and Japan to North America began in 1849 win the gold rush in California created the demand for labor’s
Chinese exclusion act
When did the flow of new immigrants from China This law caused the Asian population in the US to decline
Arab
Refers To an ethnic category
Muslim
Refers to a follower of Islam
Prejudice
A rigid and unfounded generalization about an entire category of people Prejudgment an attitude judging someone before you meet them
Stereotype
An exaggerated description applied to every person in some category describe a category people in a negative trend
What is the difference between prejudice and stereotypes
Prejudice preconceived opinion not based on reason
Stereotype fixed image belief widely held
Racism
People of the some Racial category or less were then or even biologically inferior to others
I’m better than you