Chapter 9
split labor market
The division of workers along racial and gender lines.
scape-goat
a racial or ethnic or religious minority that absorbs all blame for wrongs.
indirect transfer
a type of population transfer, achieved by making life so miserable for members of a minority that they leave "voluntarily".
individual discrimination
he negative treatment of one person by another.
institutional discrimination
how discrimination is woven into the fabric of our society.
white ethnics
immigrants from Europe whose language and other customs differed from theirs.
ethnicity
refer to cultural characteristics, refer to people who identify with one another based on common ancestry and cultural heritage. may center on region or nation of origin
genocide
the attempt to destroy a group of people because of their premed race or ethnicity
forced assimilation
the dominant group refuses to allow the minority to practice its religion or speak its language, etc.
rising expectations
the expectation that sweeping legal changes would usher in better conditions of life.
pan-Indianism
emphasis on common elements that run through indian cultures.
WASPs
White Anglo Saxon Protestants, held deep prejudices against other whites.
Race
a group of people with inherited physical characteristics that distinguish it from another group.
permissible assimilation
allows the minority to adopt the dominant group's patterns in its own way and at its own speed.
multiculturalism
also called pluralism, permits or even encourages racial-ethnic variation. The minority groups are able to maintain their separate identities, yet participate freely in the country' social institutions, from educations to politics.
Discrimination
an action of unfair treatment
prejudice
an attitude that is pre-judging, usually in a negative way.
reserve labor force
another term for the unemployed, are employed at times of economic boom but laid off during times of economic contraction
population transfer
direct and indirect ways of doing this, basically moving a minority group out of the majority group.
selective perception
lead us to see certain things while they blind us to others.
authoritarian personality
people believe that things are either right or wrong.
minority group
people who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination.
dominant group
the group that has greater power and prestige.
assimilation
the process by which a minority group is absorbed into the dominant group.
segregation
the separation of racial or ethnic groups.
ethnic work
the way we construct our ethnicity.
internal colonialism
to describe how a country's dominant group manipulates the social institutions to suppress minorities for its economic advantage.
compartmentalize
to separate their acts of cruelty from their sense of being good and decent people.
direct transfer
type of population transfer where a dominant group expels the minority.
