Quiz 3 Flashcards
What is the Americanization movement?
1909- early 1920s. explicit attempts at assimilating immigrants.
What is Anglo Conformity?
Subordibnate groups are expected to conform to a white protestant, english speaking society.
What is Antilynching movement?
Movement to end lynching
What is the Chinese Exclusiuon Act of 1882?
The first law in Us history to restrict immigration. which is unique in its prohibition of immigration on the basis of race/ethnicity. It banned chinese immigration for ten years under penalty of imprisionment or deportation and made chinese already in the ud ineligible for citizenship with exemptions for diplomats, teachers, scholars, tourists and merchants.
What is Collective violence
a process by which a group of people respond to deviance or percieved deviance; an extra legal orm of social control
What is Cultural Assimilation
Where the minority group absorbs the culture of the dominant group
What is Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
freeing all the slaves held within the confederacy and imposing federal occupation of southern states that had ceeded from the union , thus the fed gove militarily occupied and politically ruled southern states for a period after the civil war.
What are Ethnic enclaves
Communities where immigrants of particular racial/ethinic groups live in close proximity and where there are ethnic resteraunts groceries and other businesses . provids immigranrts with a supportive buffer from hostilities of the mainstream as well as employment oppurtunities otherwise unavaliable to them.
What is Global White supremacy
Historically based and institutionally perpetrated system of exploitation and oppression of continents nationsd and peoiple classified as non white by those classified as white
What is group position?
The position a specific racial/ethnic group occupies and should ocvcupy (in their opinion, relative to out grouops in the social order.
What is Lynching?
is a form of murder carried out in public administered by mobs, and invilves torture such as burning, castrastion shooting, dismembrment, hanging
What is Nativism?
A surge in ani-immigrant beliefs and policies occured.
What are pogroms?
Violent attacks against jews, jewish businesses, and synaogues, and jews systematic murder at the hands of government officials
What is the Power-threat hypothesis proposed bu Hubert M Blalock?
Argued, lynching increased when competition over economic resources increased or when there was increasing competition for political power.
What are race riots
Mob attacks by dominant group members onblack communties with violence against racial minorities and property.
