Soc Exam Chapter 3

Racialized Medicine

A drug approved to help treat heart failure in African Americans and only african americans. This race specific drug is called BiDill

Model minority:

A minority group whose members are most often perceived to achieve a higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population average.

Critical race theory:

An academic discipline focused upon the application of critical theory, a critical examination of society and culture to the intersection of race, law, and power. argues that racism is central to the US society rather than aberrational and they specifically challenge the rhetoric of racial neutrality and color-blindness found within policies and law

Phrenology

An early example of scientific racism was the study of phrenology. It is now a defunct branch of science that compared the skull sizes of various racial groups and used those data to try to determine group intelligence, social and cultural characteristics and the presumed innate group differences between races.

Diversity ideology:

Condition of entering or allowing more than one set of beliefs. It is what an individual hence a group, class, or culture believes. celebration of diversity in organizations particularly corporations and schools.

Extinction Thesis

Frederick L. Hoffman's academic article "Race Traits of the American Negro" (1896) compared mortality rates, and it particular infant mortality rates in white and black communities to establish his extinction thesis.

Racial formation:

Is an analytical tool in sociology,developed by Michael Omi and Howard Winant, which used to look at race as a socially constructed identity.

White racial frame

Joe Feagin coined the concept after conducting extensive sociological research and writings on racial and ethnic oppression, exploitation and inequality. He describes the white racial frame as a worldview that includes racial beliefs racially loaded terms, racialized images, verbal connotations, racialized emotions, and interpretations as well as discriminatory actions to help justify ongoing racism.

Antimiscegenation laws:

Laws that enforced racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by criminalizing interracial marriage and sometimes also sex between members of different races.

Systemic racism

Occurs when the way society is structured systematically ends up giving advantages to some and disadvantages to others.

Human genome and race

The genetic sequence of the human species, a significant scientific accomplishment. The Human Genome Project was an important advancement in genetic research and biotechnology. It found cures for existing diseases and genetic disorders and illness through gene therapies (manipulation of genes that cause diseases) Overtime genetic mutations appear as evolutionary responses to the environment. Genome geography- portions of genetic sequence are associated with specific geographic locations.

Eugenics movement

The proliferation of scientific racism ultimately led to the eugenics movement. Sir Francis Galton coined the term eugenics, arguing that the healthiest and ablest should be encouraged to have more children for the betterment of society. During the first half of the twentieth century, white birth rates dropped, while those of immigrants or people of color either increased or remained the same.

Scientific racism:

Use of scientific techniques and hypothesis to support or justify the behalf in racism.