a
which is true about race in many parts of the world today?
a) it is learned
b) it is simply the figment of imagination
c) it is strictly a matter of descent
race literacy
Skills taught to children of multiracial families to help them cope with racial hierarchies and to integrate multiple ethnic identities
ethnicity
Cultural values and norms that distinguish the members of a given group from others
Italian and German
my ethnicity
race
Differences in human physical characteristics used to categorize large numbers of individuals
true
race is a classification system
racialization
The process by which understanding of race are used to classify individuals or groups of people
Can be institutionalized into exploitive political or economic systems
social construct
sociologists call race a ____ ____
minority group
A group of people in a minority in a given society who, because of their distinct physical or cultural characteristics, find themselves in situations of inequality within that society
racism
Attributing superiority or inferiority to a population that shares certain physically inherited characteristics
institutional racism
Patterns of discrimination based on ethnicity that have become structured into existing social institutions
victims of racism
-Rodney King
- Amadou Diallo
prejudice
Holding preconceived ideas about an individual or group; these ideas are resistant to change even in the face of new information
true
prejudice can either be positive or negative
discrimination
Behavior or practices that deny to members of a particular group resources or rewards that others can obtain
stereotyping
Thinking in terms of fixed and inflexible categories
displacement
Transferring ideas or emotions from their true source to another object
scapegoats
Individuals or groups blamed for wrongs that were not of their doing
false
immigrants are NOT scapegoats for things like unemployment
antiracism
Forms of thought and/or practice that seek to confront, eradicate, and/or ameliorate racism
yes
is affirmative action an example of antiracism in the U.S?
true
Most Europeans believed they were racially, morally, and culturally superior to native or enslaved populations.
models of ethnic integration
assimilation, melting pot, pluralism, multi culturalism
civil rights movements
NAACP (1909)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955 to 1956)
Lunch counter sit-ins (1960 and beyond)
immigration
The movement of people into one country from another for the purpose of settlement
emigration
The movement of people out of one country in order to settle in another
factors for migration
Push factors
Pull factors
Macro-level factors
Micro-level factors
diaspora
The dispersal of an ethnic population from an original homeland into foreign areas, often in a forced manner or under traumatic circumstances (Jews, Africans, Armenians) but sometimes voluntarily (Chinese, Indian, Caribbean, British)
b
Cultural practices and outlooks of a given community that have emerged historically and that set people apart are referred to as ______.
(a) race
(b) ethnicity
(c) cultural relativism
(d) pluralism
c
Newspaper cartoons in the 1800s that compared the head of an African man and an Irish man to that of an ape and implied or said outright that Africans and the Irish were lazy, dangerous, and not quite human are examples of ______.
(a) prejudice
(b) scapeg
a
Which of the following pairs are closest to being opposites?
(a) melting pot; pluralism
(b) assimilation; emigration
(c) multiculturalism; pluralism
(d) prejudice; discrimination
b
The system of state-controlled racial segregation in South Africa was called ______.
(a) institutional racism
(b) apartheid
(c) Jim Crow
(d) colonial rule
a
According to the text, affirmative action programs are an example of ______.
(a) antiracism
(b) racism
(c) scapegoating
(d) discrimination
c
What happened in 1954 to set the civil rights movement in motion?
(a) The Black Panther Party was formed.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
(c) The Supreme Court decided in Brown v. Board of Education that "separate
assimilation
The acceptance of a minority group by a majority population, in which the new group takes on the values and norms of the dominant culture
melting pot
The idea that ethnic differences can be combined to create new patterns of behavior drawing on diverse cultural sources
pluralism
a model of ethnic relations in which ethnic cultures retain their independent and separate identities yet participate in the rights and powers of citizenship
multiculturalism
A recent outgrowth of pluralism in which ethnic groups exist separately and share equally in economic and political life
classic model
-Encourages immigration and offers citizenship but restricts annual intake
-United States, Canada, and Australia
colonial model
-Encourages migration from former colonies
-France and United Kingdom
guest workers model
-Encourages temporary immigration to fulfill labor demands
-Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium
illegal model
Immigrants enter secretly or under a non-immigration pretense
4 migration patterns
acceleration - greater numbers
diversification- greater variety of types of immigrants
globalization- more countries are sending and receiving migrants
feminization- greater numbers of female immigrants
Stephen castles and mark miller
created 4 migration patterns in 1993
push factors
things that push ppl out of a country: such as war, famine, population pressures
pull factors
attract immigrants: political freedom, work, higher standard of living
micro level factors
family and friendship networks between people may be a mechanism for migration
macro level factors
Germanys demand for workers, unfavorable job markets between countries
racial scale
the four boys: black, indian, white, and half caste make up the ___
purity & evil
rise of racism: people believed white = ____ and black = _____
brown vs board of education
supreme court case that made segregation illegal in public places
Mexicans, Puertoricans and Cubans
3 main Latino groups in the united states
negative forms of segregation
genocide, ethnic cleansing, and segregation