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