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Race and Ethnicity
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Sociology
12th Grade
04/17/2013

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Term
ethnicity
Definition
shared cultural heritage
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cultural pluralism
Definition
state in which racial and ethnic minorities are distinct but have a social party
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assimilation
Definition
the processs by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of dominant culture
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segregation
Definition
physical and social separation of categories of people
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genocide
Definition
systematic killing of one category of people by another
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minority group
Definition
category of people distinguished by physical or cultural traits that is socially disadvantaged
distinctive identity
subordinated
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prejudice
Definition
rigid and irrational generalization about a category of people
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discrimination
Definition
treating various categories of people unequally
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What are the three racial categories?
Definition
cacasian
negroid
mangolid
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strereotyping
Definition
prejudice views or description of a category of people
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What % of the US population: (African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, European American, Native American)
Definition
African American: 12.1%
Asian American: 3%
Hispanic American: 9%
European American: 80%
Native American: %0.8
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Active Bigot
Definition
openly discrimative
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Timid Bigot
Definition
discretely discriminative
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fair-weather liberal
Definition
conditionally racist
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all weather liberal
Definition
all the time not racists
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defacto
Definition
in fact (not by law)
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dejure
Definition
by law
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scapegoating
Definition
blaming someone with little power whom people unfairly blame for their own troubles
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WASPs
Definition
White Anglo Saxon Protesants
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Who was the first NON WASP president of usa?
Definition
Kennedy
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What category of Hispanics is most populous in the USA?
Definition
Mexican Americans (2/3)
Term
Jim Crow Laws
Definition
separate but equal
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trail of tears
Definition
cherokee indians forced to migrate to Oklahoma, ended in disease starvation and death
Term
What does 88 signify to racists?
Definition
Heil Hitler (HH)
Term
KKK
Definition
Klu Klux Klan
began 1865.
Remerged in 1920s
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peckerwoods
Definition
prison gang
100%
Term
WAR
Definition
White Aryan Resistance
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Is Puerto Rico a state?
Definition
no
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What is the largest category of Asian Americans in the USA?
Definition
Chinese Americans
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Brown V Board of Education
Definition
separate but equal UNCONSTITUTIONAL
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