Chapter 8

Pluralism

A cultural pattern of intergroup relations that encourages racial and ethnic variation and acceptance within a society

Assimilation

A pattern of relations between ethnic or racial groups in which the minority group is absorbed into the mainstream or dominant group making society more homogeneous

Segregation

A physical and legal separation of groups by race or ethnicity

Racism

A set of beliefs about the superiority of one racial or ethnic group: used to justify any quality and often rooted in the assumption that the differences between groups are genetic

Race

A socially defined category based on a real or perceived biological differences between groups of people

Ethnicity

A socially defined category based on common language religion nationality history or another cultural factor

Situational ethnicity

And ethnic identity that can be either displayed or concealed depending on its usefulness in a given situation

Individual discrimination

Discrimination carried out systematically by institutions that affect all members of a group who come into contact with it (political or economic)

Symbolic ethnicity

One ethnic identity that is only relevant on specific occasions and does not significantly impact every day life

Passing

Presenting yourself as a member of a different racial or or ethnic group than the one you were born into

Miscegenation

Romantic sexual or marital relationships between people of different races

Minority group

Social group that is systematically denied the same access to power and resources available to society's dominant groups though they are not necessarily fewer in number than dominant groups

Genocide

The deliberate and systematic extermination of A racial ethnic natural or cultural group

Internal colonism

The economic and political subjugation of the minority group by the dominant group with in a nation

Population transfer

The forcible removal of a group of people from the territory they have occupied

Racial assimilation

The process by which racial minority groups are absorbed into the dominant group through intermarriage

Cultural assimilation

The process by which racial or ethnic groups are absorbency into the Dominant group by adopting the dominant groups culture

Embodied identity

Those elements of identity that are generated through other perceptions of our physical traits

Discrimination

Unequal treatment of individuals based on their membership and social group usually motivated by prejudice

Double consciousness

WEB duboiss term for the divided identity experienced by blacks in America