Race Flashcards
Group of people who share a set of characteristics and are said to share a common bloodline
Race
Belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits
Racism
Nineteenth century theories of race that characterize a period of feverish investigation into the origins, explanations, and classifications of race
Scientific racism
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
Ethnocentrism
Philosophical and religious notion that all people are created equal
Ontological equality
Application of Darwinian ideas to society, namely the evolutionary “survival of the fittest”
Social Darwinism
Pseudoscience that postulates that controlling the fertility of populations could influence inheritable traits passed on from generation to generation
Eugenics
Movement to protect an preserve indigenous land or culture from the allegedly dangerous and polluting effect of new immigrants
Nativism
Belief that “one drop” of black blood makes a person black, a concept that evolved from U.S. laws forbidding miscegenation
One-drop rule
Interracial marriage
Miscegenation
Formation of a new racial identity by drawing ideological boundaries of difference around a formerly unnoticed group of people
Racialization
One’s ethnic quality or affiliation; voluntary, self-defined, nonhierarchical, fluid and multiple, and based on cultural differences no physical ones
Ethnicity
Nationality, not in the sense of carrying the rights and duties of citizenship but of identifying with a past or future nationality
Symbolic ethnicity
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
Straight-line assimilation
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
Primordialism
Presence and engaged coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society
Pluralism
Legal or social practice of segregating people on the basis of their race or ethnicity
Segregation
Mass killing of a group of people based on racial, ethnic, or religious traits
Genocide
Subordinate, oppressed group of people
Subaltern
Organized effort to change a power hierarchy on the part of a less-powerful group in a society
Collective resistance
Thoughts and feelings about an ethnic or racial group
Prejudice
Harmful or negative acts against people deemed inferior on the basis of their racial category without regard to their individual merit
Discrimination
Institutions and social dynamics that may seem race-neutral but actually disadvantage minority groups
Institutional racism
