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| family unit including kin beyond parents and children (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.) |
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| disproportionate impact of hazardous substances on low-income minority groups |
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| a movement to abolish environmental harms to all people |
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| a social movement attempting to establish a Native American ethnic identity instead of only a tribal identity |
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| person, plant, or animal in its natural, native habitat |
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| having independent power or authority |
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| number of deaths per 1,000 people in a given year |
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| immigrants intending to return home after they earned enough money |
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| family loyalty and respect for one's elders |
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| fear or dislike of China, its people and culture |
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| practice in which the eldest son inherits the entire estate |
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| minority-minority relations |
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| a focus on interaction patterns between minority groups (Korean and Hispanic in L.A.) |
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| a rotating credit fund allowing Korean Americans to start or expand their businesses |
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| emigration of large numbers of skilled workers, professionals, or scientists who are badly needed by their home country |
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| a process in which immigrants hold onto some homeland values, adapt others, and adopt some values of the host country |
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| amount of good fortune that comes from meritorious or self-sacrificing actions |
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| large-scale entrance of minority-group members into primary-group relationships with the host society in its social organizations and institutions |
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| cash or land compensation to descendants of slaves to rectify past injuries |
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| when laws attempt to legitimize differential racial treatment |
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| a gradual and pervasive change in people's values |
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| state laws designed to keep blacks in subservient positions |
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| Southern-state segregation laws, passed in the 1890s and early 1900s; covered use of all public facilities, including schools, restaurants, transp., waiting rooms, restrooms, drinking fountains |
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| (Myrdal) perpetual sequence of reciprocal stimuli and responses produce complex interactive results |
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| an African-American systematic language dialect with its own grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary |
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| high percentage of impoverished families headed by women |
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| refusal by some banks to make loans on property in lower-income minority neighborhoods (indicated with secret maps with red pencil lines) |
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| two opposite trends occurring simultaneously undocumented aliens: illegal immigrants |
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| basic value governing various qualities of masculinity; inner strength, personal daring, bravado, leadership and sexual prowess |
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| assumes that dignity of humans entitles them to a measure of respect |
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| form of evangelical Christianity which inspires a sense of belonging through expressive worship participation |
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| large-scale movement back and forth between two countries |
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| stigmatized nickname for Cuban immigrants/refugees in 1980 |
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| clergy's defiance of the government, hiding Salvadoran refugees in churches and homes |
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| an alien outside the US who is unable or unwilling to return to his/her country because of persecution or fear of persecution |
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| an alien physically in the US, one of its embassies, or a port of entry when requiring refuge |
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