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| a sociohistorical process in which racial categories are created, inhibited, transformed, and destroyed |
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| an unreliable generalization about all members of a group that does no recognize individual differences within the group |
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| a negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority |
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| the belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior |
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| a criminal offense committed because of the offender's bias against an individual based on race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, or sexual orientation. |
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| the use of race-neutral principles to perpetuate a racially unequal status quo |
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| the denial of opportunities and equal righs to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons |
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| any police-initiated action based on race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than on a person's behavior |
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| positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities |
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| a belief that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism |
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| the theory that in cooperative circumstances interracial contact between people of equal status will reduce prejudice |
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| the deliberate systematic killing of an entire people or nation |
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| the systematic removal of a group of people from society |
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| the process through which a majority group and minority group combine to form a new group |
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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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| 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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| a former policy of he South African government, designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites |
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| a sociohistorical process in which racial categories are created, inhibited, transformed, and destroyed mutual 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 political philosophy, promoted by many young Blacks in the 1960's that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions |
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| a subordinate group whose members supposedly have succeeded economically, socially, and educationally despite past prejudice and discrimination. |
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| an ethnic identity that emphasizes concerns such as ethnic food or political issues rather than deeper ties to one's ethnic heritage |
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