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Anthropology
Chapter #6
| race | A flaw system of classification, with no biological basis, that uses certain physical characteristics to divide the human population into supposedly discrete groups. |
| racism | Individuals' thoughts and action and institution patterns and policies that crate or reproduce unequal access to power, privilege, resources, and opportunities based on imagined differences among groups. |
| genotype | the inherited genetic factors that provide the framework for an organism's physical form. |
| phenotype | The way genes are expressed in an organism's physical form as a result of genotype interaction with environmental factors. |
| colonialism | The practice by which a nation state extends political, economic, and military power beyond its own borders over an extended period of time to secure access to raw material, cheap labor, and markets in order countries or regions. |
| white supremacy | The belief that white are biologically different from and superior to people of other races. |
| whiteness | A culturally constructed concept originating in 1961 Virginia designed to establish clear boundaries of who is white and who is not, a process central to the formation of U.S. racial stratification. |
| Jim Crow | Laws implemented after the U>S. Civil War to legally enforce segregation, particularly in the South, after the end of slavery. |
| hypodescent | Sometimes called the "one drop of blood rule" the assignment of children of racially "mixed" unions to the subordinate group. |
| nativism | The favoring of certain long-term inhabitants namely whites, over new immigrants. |
| racialization | The process of categorizing, differentiating, and attributing a particular racial character to person or groups of people. |
| individual racism | Personal prejudiced beliefs and discriminatory actions based on race. |
| microaggressions | Common, everyday verbal or behavioral indignities and slights that communicate hostile, derogatory, and negative messages about someone's race, gender, sexual orientation or religion. |
| institutional racism | Patterns by which racial inequality is structured through key cultural institutions, policies, and systems. |
| racial ideology | A set of popular ideas about race that allows the discriminatory behavior to seem reasonable, rational, and normal. |