Sociology Chapter 9: Race

Background Consciousness

Autopilot, rely on sereotypes

Primordialism

Clifford Geertz's term to explain the strength of ethic ties because they are fixed in deeply felt or primordial ties to one's homeland culture.

Basic Security system

Emotional core/ asociations

Sir Francis Galton

Led the eugenicists, believed negative traits were passed through bloodlines

Jennifer Lee

Research on the browning of america. They believe the division will be between blacks and non blacks

Straight line assimilation

Robert Park's 1920's universal linear model for how immigrants assimilate: they first arrive, then settle in, and achieve full assimilation in a newly homogenous country.

Brown vs. Board of education

Struck down the idea of "separate but equal" and had been previously upheld by plessy vs. ferguson

Symbolic Ethnicity

a nationality, not in the sense of carrying the rights and duties of citizenship but of identifying with a past or future nationally. For later generations of white ethnics, something not constraining but easily expressed, with no risks of stigma and all the pleasures of feeling like an individual. — Herbert Gans

Subaltern

a subordinate oppressed group of people

Collective resistance

an organized effort to change a power hierarchy on the part of a less-powerful group in society.

Institutional racism

institutional and social dynamics that may seem race-neutral but actually disadvantage minority groups.

Eugenics

literally the meaning 'well born'; a pseudoscience that controls the fertility of populations could influence inheritable traits that passed on form generation to generation.

Ethnicity

one's ethnic quality of affiliation. Its voluntary self-defined, nonhierarchical, fluids and multiple, and based on cultural differences not physical ones per se.

Social Darwinism

the application of Darwinian ideas to society—namely, "the evolutionary survival of the fittest."

One-drop rule

the belief that 'one drop' of black blood makes a person black, a concept that evolved from U.S laws forbidding miscegenation.

Racism

the beliefs that members of separate races posses different and unequal traits.

Discrimination

the harmful or negative acts against people deemed inferior on the basis of their racial category, without regard to their individual merit.

Segregation

the legal or social practice of separating people on the basis of their race or ethnicity.

Miscegenation

the literal term for forbidding "mixing of any kinds" it is politically and socially charged. Part of Jim Crow.

Genocide

the mass killing of a group of people based on racial, ethnic, or religious traits.

Nativism

the movement to protect and preserve indigenous land or culture from the allegedly dangerous and polluting effects of new immigrants.

Scientific racism

the nineteenth century theories of race that characterize a period of feverish investigation into the origins, explanations, and classifications of race. François Bernier created a geologic map of race.

Ontological equality

the philosophic and religious notion that all people are created equal.

Pluralism

the pretense and engaged coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society.

Discursive consciousness

thinking with all of our faculties

prejudice

thoughts and feelings about an ethnic or racial group