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exam 3 & 4 Flashcards

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Define Prejudice

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Assuming you know how someone will behave based on their group. It’s a belief/attitude

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Define Discrimination

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The practice of teaching people differently based on a group or race. It’s an action.

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Define Racial Prejudice

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Racial beliefs

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Define Racial Discrimination

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Racial Actions

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Ideology

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a set of principles and ideas that embodies a society or group

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Racial Ideologies

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The most pervasive, its where race is not acknowledge but prejudices and systems work to benefit whites.

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Stereotypes

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Over simplified ideas about types of groups or people, pictures in our head that we don’t acquire from personal beliefs. We get it from somewhere else.We are taught.

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Black Lives Matter

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the campaign is to address racial violence and police brutality, racial ideologies in the United States

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Individual Racism

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when one person discriminates against another person on the basis of race or ethnicity

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Micro Aggression

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Daily common place insults that cumulatively affect the psychological well being of people of color

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Institutional Racism

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Macro discrimination in institutions, laws, and policies that reproduce racial inequalities

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Structural Discrimination

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Exists as a produce of the normal function of society’s institution. Usually subtle and subconscious. The law doesn’t state that we don’t want people of color in the suburbs but there may be certain things that haunt or stunt the access for people of color

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Overt racism

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Explicit, obvious, intentional racism

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Jim Crow Laws

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A set of laws in place that mandated segregation

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Civil Rights era

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When racism did make some change, and sought to end Jim Crow. This was when sit ins happened, freedom rights, and forced implementation to desegregate schools

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Abstract Liberalism

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Using “liberal ideas” or equality of opportunity to explain racial differences. Such as “It’s a choice If you live in a poor neighborhood. It’s a mindset. It’s just because you are lazy”. It fails to recognize any other factors

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Naturalization

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Explaining racial phenomenon as if it’s natural. “Black people like to be segregated and be with their own race”.

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Cultural Racism

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Based on cultural expectants, “blacks live in poor neighborhoods because they don’t work hard enough or because they are better at certain skills”

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Minimization for Racism

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They argue that racism isn’t prevalent anymore. Acting like it’s not a big deal or problem.

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Naturalization of 1790

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laid the foundation for later immigration policies. set a precedent for only granting certain things to certain races and groups of people

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Chinese Exclusion Act :

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prohibited immigration from China

22
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Oriental Exclusion Act :

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expanded the Chinese immigration act. prohibited most immigration from Asia.

23
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Creation of Border Patrol :

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1924, in response to an influx of immigration

24
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Operation Wetback :

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Mass deportation of mexican nationals in the 1950’s. a million or so were deported.

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Legal Permanent Resident :

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foreign national who is granted the right to remain in the US and would be eligible for naturalization after 3 to 5 years.

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Bracero Program:

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They allowed Mexican immigrants to come into the country in order to fill jobs during labor shortages.

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Philippine Immigration :

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Unique because it was a country connected to the United States and they were considered American Nationals.

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Cuban Immigration:

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Open door policy that started with Lyndon B. Johnson. If they make it on soil, they have support and help from the US

29
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1980’s

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greater concern for immigration which led to the immigration reform act.

30
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Hegemonic

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so widely accepted that they become common sense.

31
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who was trayvon Martin?

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a boy who was shot because he was stereotyped by race. George Zimmerman killed him, a police officer.

32
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What is plessy vs. Ferguson?

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requires racial segregation was constitutional like bathrooms by saying “separate but equal”

33
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first Talk about Mass deportation of Mexican and Mexican Americans

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early twentieth century segregation to engineer the “race of America”.

34
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Who was Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu?

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He was a man who was born in the US but was sent t oa camp in Topaz and was arrested for trying to change appearance

35
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What was the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment?

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It was when African Americans participating in an experimental study for decades. They were poor and needed money but were mistreated because of race and many died. A whistleblower ended it.

36
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Who were freedom riders?

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white and black people that rode on a bus attempting to not be segregating but were met with violence

37
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The Chinese exclusion act of 1882 and the asiatic barred zone of 1917 ended legal asian labor migrate in the US. True of False

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True

38
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What is color blind universalism?

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the idea that people should ignore color

39
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Who argued that instiutional racism operates at both a covert and an overt level?

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Carol Camp Yeakey

40
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systematic racism

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a diverse assortment of racist practices; the unjustly gained economic and political power of White people, the continuous resource inequalities; and the white racist ideologies, attitudes, and institutions created to preserve white advantage and power.

41
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nativism

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belief that native born citizens are superior to native born citizens

42
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Who was Robert Bautista?

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A legal permanent resident of the US, found guilty for carrying gasoline and was deported.

43
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McCarran Internal Security Act

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law in 1950, deported American nationals in the communist party

44
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1965 immigration and nationality act

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put an end the racial quotas that came from the Chinese act.

45
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Immigration reform and control act of 1986

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had racial sentiments about Mexican taking all of the jobs, and overusing welfare (which was false).

46
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After proposition 187 was found unconstitutional, what 3 laws supported that?

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(AEDPA) Anti-terrorism and effective death penalty act, (IIRIRA) Illegal immigration reform and illegal responsibility and (PRWORA) personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act.

47
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President Obama had record high deportations, which executive order brought some relief?

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DACA

48
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Nativism is promoted by organizations such as

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FAIR

49
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As of 2019 which two policies are deliberately intended to exclude low income immigrants of color from the Global South.

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Remain in Mexico program and the Asylum denial act

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