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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the Notes on the State of Virginia and ultimately influenced the public into believing that blacks are inferior and Indians are uncivilized |
| State of Virginia | A plan of gradual emancipation was implimented |
| Blumenbach- Negroid, Mongoloid, Caucasoid, Australoid | 19th century classification of races |
| Polygenic Traits | Part of the nasal index that decides nose shape based on geographical location |
| Melanin | Skin color pigment |
| Nasal Index | Is an evolutionary adaptation to climate broader noses (platyrrhine) evolving in a warm humid environment narrow noses (leptorrhine) evolving in colder climates where the air needed more warming |
| Social Justice | Promoting just society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity. All people share common diversity and all receive equal treatment |
| America's Fundamental Contradiction | while our founding documents espouse equality and freedom, there have always been populations who have not been afforded these basic human rights |
| Ethinicity | When a sub population of individuals reveals or is perceived to reveal historical experiences as well as unique organizational behavioral and cultural characteristics |
| White Man's Burden | The duty of whites to govern and impart their culture to what they perceived as inferior races until they can take responsibility |
| Minority Group | Group of people who because of physical or cultural characteristics are singled out for their differential and unequal treatment and regard themselves as victims of discrimination |
| Majority Group | Group of people who because of physical or cultural characteristics are grouped together and are dominant in society |
| Discrimination | the process by which members of the more powerful dominant group act to deny the members of another less powerful and subordinate minority group |
| Genocide | Jews in WWII, Rwanda, Native Americans |
| Expulsion | |
| Segregation | |
| Exclusion | |
| Selective Inclusion | |
| Abusive Systemic Practices | |
| Microagressions | Type of discrimination that is below the radar |
| Institutional Discrimination | When individual acts are sanctioned by cultural values, beliefs, laws, and norms when they are part of the social structure |
| Social Structure | Exists when individual acts are sanctioned by cultural values, beliefs, laws, norms and when they are a part of the way a social structure normally operates and when they are a pervasive and persistent feature of the contact among people |
| Stratification | Discrimination as it operates to segregate, exclude, and selectively include members of a subordinate ethnic sub population within a society |
| Racism | Attitude, belief, behavior, or institutional arrangement that favors one race or ethnic group (usually the dominant group) over another (usually subordinate or minority group) |
| Prejudice | Attitudes and beliefs involving a tendency to make assumptions about people usually negatively and usually on the basis of a single personal characteristic |
| Stereotype | An exaggerated belief that is generalized to an entire category of people. |
| In-Group | Groups of people you identify with and share values/interest/knowledge |
| Out-Group | Different groups of people who you believe you believe share different interests |
| Scapegoat | Taking out feelings of frustration and aggression on others |
| Authoritarian Personality | If a person is prejudice against one group s/he is likely prejudice to some degree against groups (Adonso) |
| Childhood Socialization | Euro-American culture as normal (Doll Test) |
| Euro-American (White) is Normal | |
| Effects of Education on Prejudice | As we become more educated, we become better able to understand complex ideas and situations and our tolerance for complexity and ambiguity increases |
| Economic Insecurity and Prejudice | Both perceived and real ideas about one’s status. Fewer and fewer resources and more people competing for them. |
| Passive Acceptance | |
| Active Manipulation | Hidden resistances to adaptation of prejudices and discrimination |
| Marginal Participation | |
| Assimilation | |
| Withdrawl/Self-Segregation | |
| Rebellion/Revolt | |
| Color-Blind Priveledge | |
| White Priveledge | |
| Possessive Investment in Whiteness | Being a member of a particular racial group gives both social and economic privileges or disadvantages that are institutional and intergenerational |
| Trail of Tears | March from Georgia to Oklahoma in winter by foot and over a quarter died along the way and was witnessed by Tolkville |
| Manifest Destiny | Unstoppable, inevitable process ordained by God that is technological, moral, cultural, educational, social progress bringing light into darkness. Where women embodies civilization |
| Scientific Racism | The act of justifying inequalities on the basis of science |
| 1904 St. Louis World's Fair | Louisiana Purchase exposition |
| 1790 Naturalization Act | Revised law from 1870 and required immigrants to learn English in order to become naturalized citizens. |
| Passing for White | |
| Dred Scott v. Stanford (1857) | the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court |
| Tape v. Hurley (1885) | Denied access to school because of her Chinese ancestry |
| Johnson v. M'intosh (1823) | Private citizens could not purchase lands from Indians |
| Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922) | Refused American citizenship even though he has lived in America for over 20 years and graduation from college |
| United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923) | Tried to get Indians recognized as white because of the Naturalization Act |
| Structural Discrimination | Originates somewhere, takes on different forms |
| Cline | A gradation of the one or more characterizations within a species or other taxon especially between populations |
| Social Construct | a social mechanism, phenomenon, or category created and developed by society; a perception of an individual, group, or idea that is 'constructed' through cultural or social practice |
| Redlining | Separating houses based on color zones of race representing the value of housing |
| Blockbusting | When real estate agents went down because of black neighbors and whites accepted offers to sell their houses at a low rate and move- cutting their loses while they still could |
| White Flight | Who moves first, away from black neighbors for the best profit |
| Stratification | Discrimination as it operates to segregate, exclude, and selectively include members of a subordinate ethnic sub population within a society |
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