Race

Question 1

Group of people who share a set of characteristics and are said to share a common bloodline

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Race

Question 2

Belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits

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Racism

Question 3

Nineteenth century theories of race that characterize a period of feverish investigation into the origins, explanations, and classifications of race

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Scientific racism

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Belief that one’s own culture or group is superior to others and the tendency to view all other cultures from the perspective of one’s own

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Ethnocentrism

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Philosophical and religious notion that all people are created equal

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Ontological equality

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Application of Darwinian ideas to society, namely the evolutionary “survival of the fittest”

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Social Darwinism

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Pseudoscience that postulates that controlling the fertility of populations could influence inheritable traits passed on from generation to generation

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Eugenics

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Movement to protect an preserve indigenous land or culture from the allegedly dangerous and polluting effect of new immigrants

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Nativism

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Belief that “one drop” of black blood makes a person black, a concept that evolved from U.S. laws forbidding miscegenation

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One-drop rule

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Interracial marriage

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Miscegenation

Question 11

Formation of a new racial identity by drawing ideological boundaries of difference around a formerly unnoticed group of people

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Racialization

Question 12

One’s ethnic quality or affiliation; voluntary, self-defined, nonhierarchical, fluid and multiple, and based on cultural differences no physical ones

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Ethnicity

Question 13

Nationality, not in the sense of carrying the rights and duties of citizenship but of identifying with a past or future nationality

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Symbolic ethnicity

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Robert Park’s 1920s universal and linear model for how immigrants assimilate; they first arrive, then settle in, achieve full assimilation in a newly homogenous country

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Straight-line assimilation

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Clifford Geertz’s term to explain the strength of ethnic ties because they are fixed in deeply felt or primordial ties to one’s homeland culture

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Primordialism

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Presence and engaged coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society

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Pluralism

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Legal or social practice of segregating people on the basis of their race or ethnicity

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Segregation

Question 18

Mass killing of a group of people based on racial, ethnic, or religious traits

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Genocide

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Subordinate, oppressed group of people

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Subaltern

Question 20

Organized effort to change a power hierarchy on the part of a less-powerful group in a society

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Collective resistance

Question 21

Thoughts and feelings about an ethnic or racial group

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Prejudice

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Harmful or negative acts against people deemed inferior on the basis of their racial category without regard to their individual merit

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Discrimination

Question 23

Institutions and social dynamics that may seem race-neutral but actually disadvantage minority groups

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Institutional racism