Exam 4 Flashcards
Race
A flawed system of classification, with no biological basis, that uses certain physical characteristics to divide the human population into supposedly discrete groups
Racism
Individuals’ thoughts, actions, and institutional pattens and policies that create unequal access to power, privilege, resources, and opportunities based on imagined differences among groups
Genotype
The inherited genetic factors that provide the framework for an organism’s physical form
Phenotype
The way genes are expressed in an organisms physical form as a result of genotype interaction with environmental factors
Colonialism
The practice by which a nation-state extends political, economic, and military power beyond its own boarders over an extended period of time to secure access to raw materials, cheap labor, and markets in other countries or regions
Miscegenation
A demeaning historical term for interracial marriage
White Supremacy
The belief that whites are biologically different from and superior to people of other races
Whiteness
A culturally constructed concept designed to establish clear boundaries of who is white and who is not (a process central to the formation of US racial stratification
Jim Crow
Laws implemented after the US Civil War to enforce segregation legally, particularly in the South, after the end of slavery
Hypodescent
Sometimes the “one drop of blood rule”, assignment of children of racial “mixed” unions to the subordinate group
Nativism
The favoring of certain long-term inhabitants, namely whites, over new immigrants
Racialization
The process of categorizing, differentiating, and attributing a particular racial character to a person or group of people
Individual Racism
Personal prejudiced beliefs and discriminatory actions based on race
Microaggression
Common, everyday verbal or behavioral indignities and slights that communicate hostile, derogatory, and negative messages about someone’s race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion
Institutional Racism
Patterns by which racial inequality is structured through key cultural institutions, policies, and systems
Racial Ideology
A set of popular ideas about race that allows discriminatory behaviors of individuals and institutions to seem reasonable, rational, and normal
Intersectionality
An analytic framework for assessing how factors such as race, gender, and class interact to shape individual life changes and societal patterns of stratification
Ethnicity
A sense of historical, cultural, and sometimes ancestral connection to a group of people who are imagined to be distinct from those outside the group
Origin Myth
A story told about the founding and history of a particular group to reinforce a sense of common identity
Ethnic Boundary Marker
A practice or belief used to signify who is in a group and who is not, but yet may chance overtime
Situational Negotiation of Identity
An individual’s self-identification with a particular group that can shift according to social location
Identity Entrepreneurs
Political, military, or religious leaders who promote a worldview through the lens of ethnicity and use war, propaganda, and state power to mobilize people against those whom they perceive as a danger
Genocide
The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic or religious group
Ethnic Cleansing
Efforts by representatives of one ethnic or religious group to remove or destroy another group in a particular geographic area
