Quiz 2 Flashcards
Miscegenation
Historical term for interracial marriage
Nativism
Favoring certain long term inhabitants over new immigrants
Individual racism
Personal prejudiced beliefs and discriminatory actions based on race
Institutional racism
Patterns by which racial inequality is structured through key cultural institutions, policies, and systems
Ethnic boundary marker
A practice or belief used to signify who is in a group and who is not (such as food, clothing, language)
Contextually relevant
Stratification
Unequal access/distribution of resources including wealth, power, and prestiege
What is salient/relevant for any of us about our identity changes over time
ex: after 9/11, people’s identity as Americans changed, “I’m an American first”
Situational negotiation of identity
An individual’s self-identification with a particular group that can shift according to social location
Ethnic group making project
Effort to get people to identify ethnically and come together as an ethnic group, band together
India day parade
Example of ethnic boundary marker
Identity as Indian most relevant
Shows unity, solidarity, visible power together
Shows political power and leverage
Rwandan genocide
Hutu and Tutsi lived in peace until Belgian colonists divides them
The two identities were not relevant until ethnic boundary markers were created (height, head shape)
Hutu group together against Tutsi
Ethnic group making project because Hutu band together as an ethnic group
Rise of white nationalism is shaped by:
Economics and stratification
Imagined community
Invented sense of connection and shared traditions that underlies identification with a particular ethnic group or nation whose members likely will never all meet
Nations are imagine communities, have sense of membership
Benedict Anderson
Invented traditions
Hobsbawm and Ranger
Have common language and infrastructure to keep us connected and shape a national identity
Shabana Mir and the self disciplining subject
Informants changes selves based on what people thought of them
Ex: one girl said she was Indian and refused alcohol but asked for pop instead because she didn’t want anybody to know she was Muslim
Virtual identity vs. real identity
Perceived as normal until something stigmatizes us
Plessy v Ferguson
Separate but equal
Blacks and whites should be segregated
Brown v Board
Separate is not equal
Ruled against segregation
de Jude segregation
Legal segregation
Made illegal by brow v board
De facto segregation
While school segregation may be illegal, it still happens
Susie Phipps
One drop of blood rule meant she was considered “colored”
Hypodescent
One drop of blood rule
Assignment of children of racially mixed unions to the subordinate group (whichever parent regarded as lowest is how child is identified)
Keep white as an elite status
Construction of whiteness
Is cultural
Many groups were not considered white until later in American history
White privilege
17th century, privilege awarded to those newly considered white
Goal is to divide and conquer
Did not want slaves banging together
