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| Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs, promotions, and educational. opportunities. |
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| The process through which a majority group and a minority group combine to form a new group. |
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| A former policy of the South African government, designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites. |
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| The process through which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture. |
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| A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions. |
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| The use of race-neutral principles to defend a racially unequal status quo. |
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| An interactionist perspective which states that in cooperative circumstances, interracial contact between people of equal status will reduce prejudice. |
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| The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons. |
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| A group that is set apart from others primarily because of its national origin or cultural patterns. |
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| The tendency to assume that one’s own culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others. |
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| A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism. |
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| The deliberate, systematic killing of an entire people or nation. |
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| An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individuals gender, race, or ethnicity. |
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| A criminal offense committed because of the offender’s bias against a race, religion, ethnic group, national origin, or sexual orientation. |
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| Institutional discrimination |
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| The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society. |
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| A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs. |
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| or ideal minority A minority group that despite past prejudice and discrimination, succeeds economically, socially, and educationally without resorting to confrontations with Whites. |
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| Children born in the United States to the Issei. |
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| respect for one another’s cultures among the various groups in a society, which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice. |
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| A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority. |
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| a sociohistorical process in which racial categories are created, inhibited, transformed, and destroyed. |
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| A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences. |
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| Any arbitrary action initiated by an authority based on race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than on a person’s behavior. |
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| The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior. |
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| The physical separation of two groups of people in terms of residence, workplace, and social events; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group. |
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| An unreliable generalization about all members of a group that does not recognize individual differences within the group. |
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| An ethnic identity that emphasizes such concerns as ethnic food and political issues rather than deeper ties to one’s ethnic heritage. |
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