Race & Ethnicity Flashcards
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Race
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- A group sharing apparent physical traits deemed by society to be socially significant
- is a social concept, socially significant
- Genetic differences very small
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Ethnicity
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- The attribution of characteristics to groups of people who share a common cultural (including religion) heritage
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Social Construction of Race
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One Drop Rule
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- any person with even one ancestor of sub saharan african descent is black
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Prejudice
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- A belief about an individual or group that is not subject to change on the basis of evidence
- Inflexible attitudes toward others
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Discrimination
Individual
Institutional
Redlining
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- unequal treatment of individuals based on their membership of a group
- intentional unequal treatment often based on prejudice
- unequal treatment that has become a part of the routine operations of a business, school, hospital, or government.
Redlining: banks refusing mortgages in certain areas
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Stereotypes
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- Generalizing a set of characteristics to all members of the group
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White Privilege
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- white people shaped their own history
- everything features white people on it
- don’t have to worry about affirmative action
- race won’t be a hindrance to getting medical or legal help
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Anti-miscegenation
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Laws that enforce racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships
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Race and Health Disparities
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- blacks typically have worse health, low birth rate, higher infant mortality, and higher chances of premature birth
- race trumps other identified predictors of health such as age, income, and education
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Racial and Ethnic Groups in the US
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- American indians
- African Americans
- Latinos (mexican and cuban)
- Asian Americans
- Arab Americans
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Supreme Court cases related to race
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- Shelly v Kramer: racial covenants in property deeds were unconstitutional
- Loving v Virginia: married in DC, moved to virginia, arrested for interracial marriage
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Expulsion
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The forcible removal of a population
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Segregation
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The physical and social separation of different groups of people
- social = gerrymandering (drawing voting lines to include blacks all in one district to limit influence)
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Assimilation
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The absorption of a minority group into the dominant color
- melting pot
