Race & Ethnicity I

Question 1

Define stereotyping

Answer 1

Perpetrating an exaggerated and oversimplified image of a group’s characteristics

Question 2

Define prejudice

Answer 2

Unfavourable, generalized, and ridged beliefs applied to a group

Question 3

Define discriminaton

Answer 3

Practices, such as behaviours, that deny groups equal access

Question 4

Define racism

Answer 4

A combination of prejudice and discrimination, varies in degrees and presentaitons

Question 5

What are the two causal chains?

Answer 5

Original belief that it was prejudice > discrimination (solve it by educating prejudice)
Modern belief is that it is discrimination > prejudice (solve it by sanctioning unwanted behaviour)

Question 6

Outline Lucius Outlaw’s approach to race

Answer 6

“Toward Critical Theory of Race”, analysis of how the word “race” was used and where it came from, originally used to describe a group of people or things, predated modern genetic sciences

Question 7

What 2 developments and scientists contributed to 19th century biological knowledge?

Answer 7

Charles Darwin - “survival of the fittest” concept
Mendel - genes are shuffled when passed, not cloned

Question 8

Examine race as a social construct

Answer 8

1) It is both achieved and ascribed, 2) the classifications are arbitrary, 3) there’s very small genetic different between groups, and 4) biological differences are behaviorally insignificant

Question 9

What is the Thomas Theorm?

Answer 9

A concept put forward by W. I. Thomas who stated “if people define a situation as real, it is real in its consequences”

Question 10

Define systematic racism

Answer 10

Intentional racism, that which is present in governmental and organizational bodies

Question 11

Define systemic racism

Answer 11

Racism that is unintentional, present within daily life and perpetrated by laymen

Question 12

Explain the elements of cultural racism

Answer 12

Everyday - use of words to refer to racial groups
Ideological - relating to the thought as a whole

Question 13

Explain the elements of interpersonal racism

Answer 13

Hate - knowingly using hurtful phrase to provoke a reaction
Polite - hiding racist ideals to avoid being called out
Subliminal - holds racist beliefs but does not believe they are racist

Question 14

Explain the elements of institutional racism

Answer 14

Systematic - intentional, baked into the systems
Systemic - unintentional, perpetrated by the people