Discrimination

Define "Colorblind Racism"

A discount on any racial discrimination.

Describe "Adaptive" Individual Discrimination.

A person who shows discrimination based on the prejudice of others.

Define "Racism"

A racial prejudice and systemic institutional power based on the belief that one race is superior to other races.

What is the "Blood Quantum"?

It was when different Native Americans will look at your ancestry to see if you're apart of their tribe.

Which characters in T.V are most often depicted as criminals?

Middle Eastern Characters

How is "Individual" discrimination classified?

Overt action of individual members of one group doing something intended to have differential or harmful effects to members of another group.

Institutional Discrimination

Policies of an organization that are intended to have a harmful of negative effect on members of less powerful groups. (ex: Jim Crow Laws in the south (Shoney's Policy) denied positions to block Americans that involved contact.

Structural Discrimination

Policies that are intended to be race neutral but actually has a negative effect on minority groups. (ex: non-intentional crimes committed by a minority group, test scores that under-predict parents and children)

What was the "Doll Test"?

Some African and White American children were asked many questions which doll describes them. All African American children saw the white doll as the good one and wanted to be that doll. All of them also said they want to be the white doll.

Those who have ____________ create rules that benefit them.

Surplus Power

What is Discrimination?

The unfavorable treatment (behavior) of an individual based in their group membership.

Describe "Overt" Individual Discrimination.

This type involves a person having prejudice attitudes towards others.

What are the six reason to why some groups experience diminished prejudice/discrimination and others do not?

a.) Color & physical characteristics b.) Their migration voluntary c.) Sheer numbers d.) Cultural differences in origins e.) Legacy of Slavery- cycle indebtedness (ex: poll taxes, literacy tests, "grandfather clause") f.) Legacy of colonialism (N.Americans & Indians) - 37 treaties were ratified and the U.S violated every one