chapter 8 Flashcards
Racism:
a term that refers to a society’s production of unjust outcomes for some racial or ethnic groups.
Residential segregation:
the sorting of different types of people into separate neighborhoods.
Hypersegregation:
residential segregation so extreme that many people’s daily lives involve little or no contact with people of other races.
White fight:
organized White resistance to integration
White flight:
a phenomenon in which White people start leaving a neighborhood when minority residents begin to move in.
Redlining:
refusing loans to or steeply overcharging anyone buying in poor and minority neighborhoods
Resource deserts:
places that lack beneficial or critical amenities
Environmental racism:
the practice of exposing racial and ethnic minorities to more toxins and pollutants than white people.
Mass incarceration:
an extremely high rate of imprisonment in cross-cultural and historical perspective
Mass deportation:
an extremely high rate of deportation in cross-cultural and historical perspective
Cross-institutional advantage and disadvantage:
when people are positively or negatively served across multiple institutions.
Cumulative advantage and disadvantage:
whereby advantages or disadvantages build over the life course.
Intergenerational advantage and disadvantage:
the kind passed from parents to children.
Structural violence:
institutional discrimination that injures the body and mind.
Tracking:
the practice of placing students in different classrooms according to their perceived ability.
