Week 9: Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

Describe this week’s paradox.

Answer 1

Race as we know it has no deterministic, biological basis: all the same, race is so powerful that it can have life-or-death consequences.

LIFE OR DEATH.

Question 2

Race

Answer 2

Group of people who share a set of characteristics - typically, but not always, physical ones - and are said to share a common bloodline.

Race DIDN’T always exist, and it’s changing. Was invented in the 17th century with the invention with slavery.

Question 3

Racism

Answer 3

The belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits.

Question 4

Scientific Racism

Answer 4

Nineteenth century period of feverish investigation into the origins, explanations, and classifications of race.

C - O - E

Question 5

Describe Ethnocentrism

Answer 5

The belief that one’s own culture or group is better than that of others and the tendency to view all other cultures from the perspective of your own.

CENTER - Revolves around you/your culture.

Question 6

Ontological Equality

Answer 6

The philosophical and religious notion that everyone is created equal.

Question 7

Social Darwinism

Answer 7

The application of Darwinian ideas to society, namely, the evolutionary “survival of the fittest.”

Question 8

Eugenics

Answer 8

“well-born”

the theory of controlling fertility of populations to influence inheritable traits passed on from generation to generation.

Question 9

Nativism

Answer 9

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

NATIVES MOVED TO PRESERVED THEIR LAND

Question 10

One-drop rule

Answer 10

The belief that “one-drop” of black blood makes a person black

evolved from U.S. laws forbidding miscegenation.

Question 11

Miscegenation

Answer 11

Interracial marriage

“a mixing of kinds”

GENERATIONS MIX KINDS

Question 12

Racialization

Answer 12

The formation of a new racial identity

Question 13

Ethnicity

Answer 13

One’s ethnic quality or affiliation.

It is voluntary, self-defined, non-hierarchical, fluid, and multiple, and based on cultural differences, not physical ones per

Question 14

Symbolic Ethnicity

Answer 14

A nationality identifying with a past or future nationality.

SYMBOLS

Question 15

Straight-line assimilation

Answer 15

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

3 - STEPS. Arrival. Settle. Assimilate. Like arriving at a new house for dinner.

Question 16

Pluralism

Answer 16

The presence and engaged coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society.

Question 17

Segregation

Answer 17

The legal or social separation of people based on their race or ethnicity.

Question 18

Genocide

Answer 18

The mass killing of a group of based on racial, ethnic, or religious traits.

Question 19

Collective Resistance

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Prejudice

Answer 20

Thoughts and feelings about an ethic or racial group.

Question 21

Discrimination

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Institutional Racism

Answer 22

Institutions that may seem race-neutral but actually disadvantage minority groups.

Economy, education, state, and housing. Wealth income, and education.

Question 23

Racial Buzzwords

Answer 23

Colorblind: not seeing people’s experience. Post-racial. Affirmative action.