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ISS 335
dumb class
32
History
Undergraduate 2
01/31/2008

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Genocide

Definition

Systematically killing of an entire race of people

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Race and Gender are both...
Definition

Socially constructed and socially defind

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The 'One Drop Rule'
Definition
Any racial intermixture mixture makes one not white
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Who says "race is socially defined"?
Definition
Omi and Winant
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Racialization
Definition
The process of assigning racial meanings
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Racial Formation
Definition
Race categories that are formed over years
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When was the Jim Crow Era?
Definition
Civil War to WWII
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Dred Scott vs. Stanford said:
Definition
Blacks are an inferior race and have no rights as citizens
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Plessy vs. Ferguson said

Definition
'Seperate but Equal'
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Brown vs. Board of Education:
Definition
Overrulled the case 'Seperate but Equal'
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What was the Great Migration?

Definition
Black people from the rural south to the urban north in the 20th century
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3 vows to join the Ku Klux Klan

Definition

1) fight communish

2) protect white womanhood

3)uphold the purity of the white race

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What is both ascribed and achieved?
Definition
Gender
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What are 3 causes of poverty?
Definition

1) high unemployment

2) lack of education

3) drugs/ alcohol

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2 types of Inequality
Definition

1) temporary

2) permanent

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Prejudice
Definition
A feeling of dislike
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Racism
Definition
A system of advantages based on race
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White privilege
Definition
An invisible package of unearned benifits that whites arent aware of
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Structural Discrimination
Definition
Discrimination in one area has consequences in other aresa
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Affirmative Action
Definition
Government program designed to assist women and minorities in hiring education
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Assimilation

Definition

An ethnic group is absorbed into the mainstream culture

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Discrimination
Definition
A dominant group denies members of subordinate groups opportunities for valued resources
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Ethnic Stratification
Definition
A hierarchy ranking of groups based on power, privilege and pristege
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Stereotypes
Definition
broad overgeneralization
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Ethnocentrism
Definition
The belief that ones culture is superior
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Xenocentrism
Definition
The belief that ones culture is inferior
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4 Stages of the relations cycle

Definition

1) Contact

2) Competition

3) Accomodation

4) Assimilation

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Cultural Assimilation
Definition
An ethnic adaptation of the values, language and belief of the culture
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Structural Assimilation
Definition
Penetration into the close associations of the dominant group
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Colonialism Theories
Definition
Internal and External colonialism
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Egaliterian
Definition
Fair treatment of all
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