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Week ElevenTerminology
Race and Ethnicity
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
03/20/2012

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Racism
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The belief that humans are subdivided into distinct groups that are different in their social behavior and innate capacities and that can be ranked as superior or inferior.
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Prejudice
Definition
Rigidly held, unfavorable attitudes, beliefs, and feelings about members of a different group based on a social characteristics such as race, ethnicity or gender.
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Race
Definition
Category of people labeled and treated as similar because of allegedly common biological traits, such as skin color, texture of hair, and shape of eyes.
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Stereotype
Definition
Overgeneralized belief that a certain trait, behavior, or attitude characterizes all members of some identifiable group.
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Racial Transparency
Definition
Tendency for the race of a society's majority to be so obvious, normative, and unremarkable that it becomes, for all intent and purpose, invisible.
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Quiet Racism
Definition
Form of racism expressed subtly and indirectl through feelings of discomfort, uneasiness, and fear, which motiates avoidance rather than blatant discrimination.
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Personal Racism
Definition
Individual expression of racist attitudes or behaviors
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Panethnic labels
Definition
General terms applied to diverse subgroups that are assumed to have something in common.
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Institutional Racism
Definition
Laws, customs, and practices that systematically reflect and produce racial and ethnic inequalities in a society, whether or not the individuals maintaining these laws, customs, and practices have racist intentions.
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Ethnicity
Definition
Sense of community derived from the cultural heritage shared by a category of people with common anscestry.
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Discrimination
Definition
Unfair treatment of people based on some social characteristic, such as race, ethnicity or sex.
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Colorism
Definition
Skin color prejudice within an ethnoracial group, most notably between light skinned and dark skinned Blacks.
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Affirmative Action
Definition
Programs designed to seek ou members of minority groups for positions from which they had been previously excluded, thereby seeking to overcome institutional racism.
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