Racialized Inequalities

Question 1

Multiculturalism

Answer 1

Political and societal policy that promotes ethnic tolerance and diversity in communities

Question 2

Discrimination

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Distinctions, exclusions, and preferential treatment based on arbitrary traits (i.e. racialization) that jeopardizes a person’s human rights and fundamental freedoms

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Racialization

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The way that others categorize people by visible characteristics and features such as hair colour, type, skin colour and facial features

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Ethnicity

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Belonging to a group or category of people that are bound together by common ties of national tradition, language, or cultural heritage

Question 5

Ethnic Group

Answer 5

A group of people who share a common homeland, language, or culture

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Racism

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Discrimination, prejudice, or antagonism directed against someone of a different ethnicity or racialized group based on the belief that one’s own racialized identity is superior

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Racialized Minority

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Those who are treated in a particular way by people around them based on their physical features and the attributes that those features are assumed to signify

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Ethnic Enclaves

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Areas with a high concentration of residents with a particular ethnicity or set of related ethnicities with a distinct culture and a defined boundary

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Stereotypes

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Widely held beliefs about a social group that are overly simplistic and often untrue

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Critical Race Theory (CRT)

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Theory that views racialization as a performance and social construction, rather than a reflection of innate, biological qualities

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Racialized/Ethnic Socialization

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The process by which we learn to perceive and evaluate people (incl. ourselves) according to presumed racialized or ethnic differences

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Ethnic Solidarity

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A process in which members of self-conscious communities interact with each other to achieve common purposes

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Code-Switch

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A situation in which a speaker effortlessly switches to a different language, dialect, class and often culture

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Tokenism

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Policy/practice of making only a token or symbolic effort toward equality and integration w/o any real change

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Orientalism

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Emphasizes, exaggerates, and distorts characteristics/cultures/features of people from Asia/North Africa/Middle East and compares them to Europeans

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Social Distance

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The perceived extent to which social groups are isolated from one another, measured by factors such as whether a member of one social class, racialized group, or ethnicity would be welcomed in the meeting place of another social class, racialized group, or ethnicity

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Tolerance

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Idea that people from different ethnic and racialized backgrounds can come together in a single nation-state and show high levels of trust and reciprocity

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Homophily

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A relationship joining actors who have the same or similar attributes or statuses

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Diaspora

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The dispersal of any group of people; originally, the term referred specifically to the tribes of Israel dispersed around the world

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Institutionalized racism

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A form of racism expressed in the practice of social and political institutions

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Expressed Racism

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Explicit discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their racialization or ethnicity

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Internalized Racism

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The conscious or unconscious acceptance of racist attitudes, incl. stereotypes and biases, towards members of one’s own ethnic group, incl. oneself