Chapter 8

Question 1

Recent science views race as a _____ _____

Answer 1

social construct

Question 1

Race

Answer 1

socially defined category based on real or perceived biological differences

Question 2

ethnicity

Answer 2

grouping people by shared culture, language and heritage

Question 3

Americans are becoming increasingly more a _____ racial background

Answer 3

mixed

Question 4

Minority group

Answer 4

group that is systematically denied the same resources that are available to the dominant group

Question 5

Colonialism

Answer 5

imposing control over a weak nation by a more powerful one

Question 6

Racism

Answer 6

discrimination based on race, a belief in the superiority of your group used to justify inequality

Question 7

Prejudice

Answer 7

negative attitudes about a group of people that are unlikely to change regardless of evidence

Question 8

Discrimination

Answer 8

unequal treatment of an individual or group based on prejudice

Question 9

Implicit bias

Answer 9

attitudes or stereotypes that are embedded at an unconscious level

Question 10

Institutional discrimination

Answer 10

maintains advantages for the dominant group while appearing to be fair. systematic discrimination occurring in institutions

Question 11

Bases for racist thinking

Answer 11

races represent distinct genetic differences. racial inequality is the result of those differences. Biological differences and inequality will remain and is justified

Question 12

Genocide

Answer 12

effort to destroy or exterminate a people due to their ethnic, religious, or racial group

Question 13

White nationalism

Answer 13

belief that the nation should be built around a white identity

Question 14

microaggression

Answer 14

everyday communications that convey denigrating or dismissive messages to members of certain social groups

Question 15

assimilation

Answer 15

a pattern of relations by which a minority group is absorbed into the dominant group

Question 16

challenges to assimilation

Answer 16

degree of physical difference and cultural differences, size of group, remain connected to homeland, reception by natives

Question 17

racial assimilation

Answer 17

process by which racial minority groups are absorbed into the dominant group

Question 18

cultural assimilation

Answer 18

process for minority groups to adopt the dominant group culture

Question 19

pluralism

Answer 19

pattern of intergroup relations that encourages acceptance and variation of different groups within a society

Question 20

segregation

Answer 20

forced separation of people based on race, gender, ethnicity, or religion

Question 21

Double consciousness

Answer 21

having one foot in the majority groups world and one in the minority groups world

Question 22

Affirmative action

Answer 22

makes easier for racial minorities and women for work places and education setting

Question 23

bilingualism

Answer 23

ability to be fluent in 2 languages, ESL