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Race

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Race   a group of people who share a set of characteristics- typically, but not always, physical ones- and are said to share a common bloodline  
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Racism   the belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits  
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Scientific Racism   19th Century theories of race that characterize a period of feverish investigation into the origins, explanations, and classifications of race  
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Ontological equality   the philosophical and religious notion that all people are created equal  
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Social Darwinism   the application of darwinan ideas to society-namely, the evolutionary "survival of the fittest"  
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Eugenics   literally meaning "well born" a pseudoscience that posutlates that controlling the fertility of populationas could influence inheritble traits pass on from gen to gen  
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Nativism   the movement to protect and preserve indigenous land or culture from the allegedly dangerous and polluting effect on new immagrants  
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One Drop Rule   the belief that one drop of black blood makes a persone black, a concept that evolved from US laws forbidding miscegenation  
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Miscengation   interational marriage  
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Racialization   the formation of a new racial identity by drawing ideologial boundaries of difference around a formerly unnoticed group of people  
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Ethnicity   one's ethnic quality or affiliation, it is voluntary/self defined/nonhierarchal/fluid and multiple, based on cultural differences, not physical  
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Symobolic Ethnicity   a nationality, not in the sense of carrying the rights and duties of citizenship but of identifying with a past of future nationality. For later generations of white ethnices, something not constrainig but easily expressed, with no risks of stigma and all  
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Straight line Assimilation   Robert Park's 1920's universal and linear model for how immigrants assimilate: they first arrive, then settle in, and achieve full assimilation in a newly homogenous country  
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Primordialism   Clifford Geertz's term to explain the strength of ethnic ties because they are fixed and deeply felt or primordial ties to one's homeland culture  
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Pluralism   the presence and engaged coexistence of numberous distinct groups in one society  
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Segregations   the legal or social practice of separating people on the basis of their race or ethnicity  
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Genocide   the mass killing of a group of people based on racial, ethnic, or religious traits  
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Subaltern   a subordinate group of people  
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Collective Resistance   an organized effort to change a power hierarchy on the part of a less powerfull group in a society  
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Prejudice   thoughts and feelings about an ethnic or racial group, which lead to preconceived notions and negative judgments about the group  
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Discrimination   harmful or negative acts (not mere thoughts) against people deemed inferior on the basis of their racial category, without regard to their individual merit  
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Color Blind Racism   the view that racial inequality is perpetuated by a supposedly color-blind stance that ends up reinfocing historical and contemporary inequities, disparate impact, and institutional bias by ignoring them in favor of a technically neutral approach  
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Institutional Racism   institutions and social dynamics that may seem race neutral but actually disadvantage minority groups  
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