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Minority Group Relations
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
02/20/2007

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Term
American Indians
Definition
Migrated from Asia 12-14,000 yeas ago. * had wide variety of languages, technology, and cultural complexity *
< 1% of American Population * still over 200 diffrent languages spoken today *
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Noel's Model of Stratification
Definition
1. Ethnocentrisim - the ideal attributes a group to which you belong. 2. Competition - two or more people/groups striving for something only one can have. 3. Power - the system of ethnic stratification rests on power.
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What did Europeans think of the Native Americans and what did they try to do to the Native Americans?
Definition
Whites thought that they were savages and agents of Satan. Whites tried to Christianize the Indians.Whites made Indian children go to the whtie schools to learn how to behave properly (socialization).
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Captive Nations
Definition
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What was the reason for the indian retreat?
Definition
cultivation reduced the supply of game and forced them to retreat.
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What did the reservation system represent (Captive nations)
Definition
The end of Indain - white equality and the movement of native people to a minority status. These reservations were governed by white agents. Thus, the indians lost control of their own fates
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Describe Reservations today, and how they got that way.
Definition
The reservation lands were ceded up by treaties, thus the tribes are due certain privileges, benefits and protection for giving up some of their soverignty to the US. Thus, the US must provide them w/ education, medical, and social services. * The reservations today are loaded with agriculutural wealth.
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How are American Indians today?
Definition
31% are below poverty level. 1/3-1/2 of families have income below poverty levels. * they are amoung the poorest and least eduated people.
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1987 Surpreme Court Ruling
Definition
That Native American's could operate Gambling Enterprises
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Where did the idea of the melting pot come from?
Definition
The middle colonies had many diverse cultures of Europeans, thus the name melting pot.
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How did Benjamin Franklin feel about the ethnic diversity?
Definition
He said that he didn't want the US to b/c Germanized, he wanted it to be Anglofied!
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Discuss the Old Immigration
Definition
Substantially Protestant, but also Roman Catholic Irish. They left the homelands b/c of economic benefits.
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What countries were the old immigrations (s) from?
Definition
Northern and Western Europe: Germany, Ireland, Great Britain (England, Scottland, Wales), and Scandanavia (Sweeden, Norway, Denmark).
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What common factors did the Old Immigrants have from the country of orgin to make them move?
Definition
1. drastic population increases 2. Displacement of handicrafts by the Industrial Revolution 3. An upheavel in agricultural that gransformed traditional agrarian land patterns.
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What countries came in the New Immigration and starting when?
Definition
At the start of WWI, they came from southern and eastern Europe: Greeks, Italians, Russians (Jews), Poles, Hugarians, etc...(they were mostly Jewish and Roman Catholic.)
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Where did the new immigrants live once they got in the US?
Definition
They origined from small towns; however, once they got here they settled in cities.
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What acts did the US take to try and keep out "New Immigrants?" Also, who was mostly restricted due to these restricitons?
Definition
One act was to make new immigrants take a literacy test, this was discrimitory against new immigrants; however, it still allowed "old immigrants." to continue coming in.* the second was the National Orgins Quota Act." *the new law excluded almost all Asians and Africans.
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What are new immigrants referred to today?
Definition
White ethnics
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What was the National Origin Quota Act?
Definition
It was a law passed that only allowed 150,000 immigrants annually; however, it only allowed "x" amount from a certain country. This law stayed intact unil 1965. The law mostly overlooked Asains and Africans
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When did the 1st black person arrive in the US, and where?
Definition
In 1619, Jamestown Virginia
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How does African American treatment compare to other minorities
Definition
No other minority groups has experienced discrimination so intense, persuasive, and enduring as have African Americans.
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What are the 3 stages of black - white realtions?
Definition
Preindustrial, Industrial, and Post Industrial.
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What is slavery?
Definition
It is a system of where some people are involutarily placed in servic/work, are defined as property, and are denied rights given to other memebers of socitey.
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What was the primary reasons blacks were put into slavery?
Definition
1. labor supply crucial to a budding American Society 2. They were culturally and physically diffrent 3. had little/no resources to defend themselves against the imposition
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What was the diffrent attitude in Brazil v/s American toward Slaves?
Definition
In Brazil, the slave was feared but not the black man; however, in the US the slave and black was feared.
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what is the 13th ammendment
Definition
abolish slavery
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what is the 14th ammendment
Definition
equal protection of the law
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what is the 15th ammendment
Definition
guaranteed the right to vote.
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What was Plessy v/s Ferguson
Definition
ligitimitized Jim Crow segregation in the south, "seperate but equal"
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What was the Great Migration?
Definition
When AA started leaving the south. Moving primarily north, the blacks congregated in urban ghettos
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What is the exoduster movement?
Definition
When blacks moved to kansas.
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Where did blacks move to
Definition
Mostly North; however, they lived in these cities: Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans, Miami, and Huston
Term
Brown v/s Board of Education
Definition
The court overturned the "seperate but equal" laws.
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What are the three largest hispanic categories?
Definition
Mexican, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans
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Where did the Hispanics live?
Definition
The 5 southwestern states: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Colorado
Term
Chicano
Definition
Mexican American
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What did the hispanics offer the US
Definition
cheap labor: railroad, mining, and agriculture
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What is the biggest reason for the influx of Spanish speakers in the US?
Definition
Puerto Rico and the Cuba immigrants have went up.
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Where do the Puerto Ricans mostly live?
Definition
New York
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Explain the Cuban Immigration
Definition
They came in two waves: 1. upper social society in Cuba 2. political refugees
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The Nations fastest growing racial group
Definition
Asians
Term
What is the Yellow Peril?
Definition
It is the thought that the Asian groups would take over the US.
Term
The order of immigration of Asians to the US
Definition
Chinese * Japanese * Filipinos, Koreans.
Term
What is a caste
Definition
You are born into a status and you can never escape it
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ghetto
Definition
a residential low income slum for the poor; of a specfic ethnic group
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predjudice
Definition
negative attitude toward a certain group of people
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Genocide
Definition
To kill off a certain race
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Order of Immigration since Indains?
Definition
1. North and Western Europe: (Germany, Britain, Scottland, Wales, Eng.)
2. West and South Europe: Ireland, Italy..)
3. Blacks
4. Hispanics (Mexico)
5. Asian Americans/ Vietemese
6. Other Hispanics (cuba/puerto rico)
Term
minority group / dominant group
Definition
minority = small portion of a larger group. * dominant group = WASP
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ethnic group v/s race
Definition
people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture * a group of persons related by common descent or heredity
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racial profiling
Definition
a form of racism consisting of the (alleged) policy of policemen who stop and search vehicles driven by persons belonging to particular racial groups
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discrimination
Definition
acting on; doing something toward a minority
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Old Immigration consisted of what?
Definition
WASP
Term
Passing
Definition
being one race but acting as another
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