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CES 101
Terms and Concepts for Test 1
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09/30/2009

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Identity
Definition
Self Categorization of a person in terms of race, what a person is to another or themselves.
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Prejudice
Definition
A preconceived uneducated opinion or feeling of something.
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One-Drop Rule
Definition
Legal custom of classifying anyone with one black ancestor in their heritage as black.
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Feminism
Definition
Advocation of equal rights for women as men have.
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Privilege
Definition
Unseen force that allows healthy white males job preference over people of race and women.
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Diaspora
Definition
Members of different races in geographical locations not located there anymore.
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Normativity
Definition
What the dominant group defines as the norm, based off assumptions of values and moral goodness.
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Culture
Definition
Traditions held by a group of people over time.
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Stereotype
Definition
Classification of a person base off the group the person associates with/looks regardless of individual differences or if it is true or not.
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Race
Definition
Idea of a biological type of being, refers to racial differences and relations.
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Socially Constructed
Definition
Created and maintained by society.
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Assimilation
Definition
Becoming part of a dominant culture by replacing ones own characteristics with that groups characteristics.
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Racism
Definition
Practices that target a race/group of individuals to harm them.
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Ethnicity
Definition
Cultural traits that are learned as normal behavior, as well as appearance traits.
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Multiculturalism
Definition
Programs that include people from different cultures as well as distinctive intellectual, literary, and artistic products.
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White Normativity
Definition
Normalness of whiteness to American whites, the goodness of whiteness to American whites, imposition of this normal and good whiteness on nonwhites and its use as a standard. Concerns money.
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Institutional Racism
Definition
Characteristics of public life that are harmful to non whites. Covert institutional racism.
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